United States v. Johns-Manville Co.

These appeals concern importations at the port of New York of a variety of merchandise, which has been appropriately divided into three general classes:

1. Large pieces or sheets of the bark of the cork tree of inferior quality, either the first, or what is known as “virgin” bark, or later growths which are inferior in grain, and all of which are used to be ground into materials for cork carpets or linoleums and the manufacture of cork articles.

2. Small pieces or chunks of cork bark which have either been broken in handling through accident or have resulted from the trimming of sheets of the…