Stone v. United States

This importation was of card cloth. The Board of General Appraisers aptly described the merchandise in its finding of fact by the following language :

It appears from the record, and we find as facts, that the cloth in question is used in making card clothing; that the warp threads are made of flax and the weft of wool and that flax is the component of chief value; that the fabric is woven double for the purpose of increasing the weight and strength; that there are two sets of weft threads and five sets of warp threads; that the weft threads on each face of the fabric pass alternately over one…