Charles A. Redden, Inc. v. United States

Donlon, Judge:

The issue here is whether, on the record before us, the shells of this importation bear marks of their special adaptation to a commercial use limited to buttons for securing parts of garments together, or for ornamentation on garments. That is the test that was laid down by our appeals court in Paramount Import Export Co. et al. v. United States, 45 C.C.P.A. (Customs) 82, C.A.D. 677. If the merchandise, as it was imported, did not bear marks of such special adaptation to limited use, it should be classified, not as partly finished shell buttons, but as manufactures of shell, or…