Case ID: ct-cust_7/html/0388-01.html
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Author: {"author": "De Vries, Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hensel, Bruckmann & Lorbacher v. United States
    (No. 1698).
    
    Leather Cut to Forms — Picker Straps.
    Strips oí leather designed to be manufactured into picker straps are not dutiable as manufactures of leather under paragraph 360, tariff act of 1913, or as nonenumer-ated articles manufactured in part under paragraph 385. They are admissible free of duty-as “leather,” paragraph 530. — Bahnsen & Co. v. United States and United States v. Bahnsen & Co. (7 Ot. Oust. Appls., 385; T. D. 36962), decided concurrently herewith, followed.
    United States Court of Customs Appeals,
    January 16, 1917.
    Appeal from Board of United States General Appraisers, G. A. 7855 (T. D. 36164).
    ^Reversed.]
    
      Comstock & Washburn for appellants.
    
      Bert Hanson, Assistant Attorney General (Charles D. Laurrence, special attorney, of counsel), for the United States.
    [Oral argument Oct. 12, 1916, by Mr. Washburn and Mr. Lawrence.]
    Before Montgomery, Smith, Barber, De Vries, and Martin, Judges.
   De Vries, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court:

The merchandise and the material issues presented herein are the same as presented in Bahnsen & Co. v. United States and United States v. Bahnsen & Co. (7 Ct. Cust. Appls., 385; T. D. 36962), this day decided. Upon the authority of and for the reasons therein stated the decision of the Board of General Appraisers herein is reversed.