United States v. Overton

These importations were of placards, show cards, or advertising signs composed of cardboard and surface-coated paper. They were assessed for duty by the collector of customs at the port of New York under the provisions of paragraph 411 of the tariff act of 1909, which, in so far as pertinent, reads:

411. Papers with coated surface or surfaces, not specially provided for in this section, five cents per pound; * * * and all other articles composed wholly or in chief value of any of the foregoing papers, not specially provided for in this section, * * * five cents a pound and thirty per centum ad…