Brittania Sportswear v. United States

Watson, Judge:

This action places in issue the classification of imported merchandise consisting of several styles of jeans, which *213have a single fabric loop on their sides at the hip. The jeans were classified under items 380.00 1 (men’s) or 382.00 2 (women’s), Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS), as modified by T.D. 68-9, as men’s or women’s wearing apparel, ornamented, of cotton.

Plaintiff claims that the loops do not render the articles “ornamented” within the meaning of the TSUS and that the articles should therefore be classified as men’s or women’s wearing apparel, not…