Wilkes-Barre Lace Mfg. Co. v. United States

Appellants imported cotton yarn which was admitted to have been made of cotton having a staple of If inches or more in length. It *520was exclusively used iu lace-curtain making. Tbe yarn was in skeins packed iñ'bales of 500 pounds each.' The testimony shows that before using the yarn for the manufacture of lace curtains it is conditioned or aged by putting it in a damp room for two or three days, and that in the course of the operations.in weaving it into curtains a loss is sustained of 20 per cent, the loss arising from the wáste from the bobbins when the yarn has run down to a length where the…