Hawley v. United States

In this case, bagging for cotton, classified by the collector of customs at the port of Galveston, Tex., as manufactures in chief value of flax, jute, and other vegetable fibers, was assessed for duty at 45 per cent ad valorem under the provisions of paragraph 358 of the tariff act of 1909, which paragraph is as follows:

358. All woven articles, finished or unfinished, and all manufactures of flax, hemp, ramie, or other.vegetable fiber, or of which these substances, or any of them, is the component mateiial of chief value, not specially provided for in this section, forty-five per centum ad…