Garrison, Wright & Co. v. United States

WHEELER, District Judge.

These articles, except blouses withdrawn, are garnitures and hussar sets in designs of silk cord and braid, stitched in place in extremes about 16 inches long and io or xi wide for the fronts of dress waists, and 24 to 26 long, and 20 to 24 wide for dress skirts. They have been assessed for duty as silk “trimmings,” at 60 per cent, ad valorem, under paragraph 390 of the act of 1897 (30 Stat. 187 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1670]), against a protest that they are dutiable at only 50 per cent., as manufactures of silk not specially provided for, under paragraph 391 (30…