Schweitzer v. United States

Merchandise, known in the trade and commerce of the United States as “paper-makers’ ■ felt, ” “drier felt, and “woolen-drier felt, ” and imported in the form of “endless belts” for use on a Four-drinier paper-making machine, was assessed for duty by the collector at the port of New York, in protest No. 108214-G, as woven fabrics at 45 cents per pound upon the wool content and 50 per centum ad valorem under paragraph 1109 of the Tariff Act of 1922; and, in protest No. 145363-G, as manufactures of wool at 50 per centum ad valorem under paragraph 1119 of that act.

The importer claims that the…