Carey & Skinner, Inc. v. United States

Lawkence, Judge:

At and prior to the time of this importation in 1940, the Irvin Air Chute, Ltd., of Ontario, Canada, which shipped the merchandise under consideration, was busily engaged in the manufacture of parachutes. It appears from the record that an unwanted byproduct of the industry consisted of waste ends of silk cord which gradually accumulated and were disposed of from time to time by either burning or discarding as rubbish.

However, the manager of the exporting corporation, as a result of conversation with an officer of the Irving Air Chute, Inc., of Buffalo, of which the exporting…