The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-25
CUSTOMS DECISIONS.

QUILTS Advances are made on the ior;
here from .Frsieii! Laazero and Giovanni
Tabasso Of Turin. Italy. in a eappraiscmem
Cooper Of the Board Of General Appraiser.
Tours .cniercS a, is. advanced TO SIS lire
each. Ditto, Aurora entered at lOis; "a,
ysnced to- II rs lire e. sac i,or, T ,rnr,n gum ON NO,
vember 10 and December 10. 1915. and entered
at this port on December %. 1915 anu
February Z. 1916.
dered yesterday Judge Fischer o. the Board
Of General Appraisers advances the foreign
% %,I / y xts,n. Of s .isi ! sn England nfF' TS Ss
General Appraiser writes; Best warranted
cast steel. annealled. entered ~ 500 co ,n.
Sosiie iron and steel for dies hall and half,
entered NJ 37s. I'd. advanced to ass. 2 hun.
a aSS ss.n.s; c a%@ ssGs,ns whi rS sh.srs" . nc not
added TO reappraised value TINS mer.nam,
disc exported february - and en'ereo
here on March 20. 1915.
BEAD CURTAINS The Board Of United
states. General Appraisers in . decision !ns'
handed down ADJUSTING . customs ms c1 nn,d.
that paragraph 3ss OF the tarin act Of 1913
| covers curtains and other articles not en-.
Sro,dersd ,n nor ,a apn,,ssSsd wholly ima "S or ipet cSief
value of beads. only when. such curtains or
articles are susceptible Of being embrold:red
or appliQued The board further fnd. that
curtains in chief value OF rice paste BEADS.
not susceptible of being embroidered or
s spo'ia% %Se Clause n,s 'u IN paraspsph SIS al, g per
cent. ad valorem az curtains in chief value
of bamboo, wood, straw or COMPOSITIONS OF
wood: that similar curt aims IN chief value OF
colored glass beads, not susceptible Of being
embroidered or appliGucd. are dutiabie uiuer
nsragraph y as articles ~ rnlei ssdus =.
no, dufiable under paragraph. 1893 by virtue
Of the sinIilitude clause. Tor the reason ,ha'
where merchandise e excluded from a para
eraph tho simiIitude clause caqnOt bc III
yoked 10 place the merchandise N within thc
paragraph from which II has been excluded
LEGALITY OF LIQUIDATION .aues
ton Of egality. OF i'auida,ion is covered III .
decision handed down Yesterday by the Board
of General Appraisers, THIS decision o,er,ru,es
u protest OF Mills & Glbb Of this oity Judge
Hay. who renders the boards opinion III TINS
ease, writes: The provisions Of paragraph
- section III. tariff act Of 1919. relative 10
tho assessment, of duty on merchandise AT a
less value than the entered value imposcs
upon the secretary of the Treasury, a DIS
General Appraiser further holds that y the
duty imposed upon the. secretary OF The
mandatory tho Board Of TINTED states GENERA
Appraisers has no lurl -diction ~ a case where
The Secretary has failed or refused To tak,
tho action contemplated by tho law, AS th'
collector ~ without power to assess the mer
chandi-e al other than the entered value tx
ccpt uror the direction Of the Secretary. The
merchandise. the subject of this test ease
consisted Of lace and net window curtains A
the time Of entry the importers made an add
tlpl ~ Y ~ per 'fVI. " lHF 'nNol'f " "
the merchandise III order to meet advances
made by the customs appraiser on previou.
shipments OF laoes. The protestants claimec
that the entered value was hig her than thu
foreign market value 10 the extent OF ~ pei
ccnt.. or S3l a. francs more than the lnvoi,ct
value III l.b,i. 90 francs. On rcapprai-snien
hcfore Jude Fischer this advance was re-
duccd 10 , Icr cent over the entered values
The importer. agreed To tins advance and Az
rilrd to the secretary of the Treasury askiil
that subsequent entries be lIpuldatcdt OF shs
basis OF the = per cent advance rather thar
upou the entered values. THIS Application
was denied and the issue was then broush'
/, forc tho General Appraisers to determine
whether or not the SECRETARY Of the T~reashr,
was within the Law ~ refusing tho request o.
tho importers Tho board finds that the ac
ton OF III" secretary Of the Treasury IN mat
t.r- of thus nature - final.
BABbIT M~EThL.-Matcrial irvoiced a.
'babbit metal. hu' winch after msltIn. wa-
found to hs unsuitable for Use as such h,
reason of tho presence OF an excess p|lantlt,
Of Zinc therein H. properly classihablc a
waste not specially provided for undel
PARAGRAPH 81; of the al of 1913 at the rate o
u per cent. al yalorcm a. claimed by tn
Frank y Dow Company, Iur, Of Seattle
wash. rather than dutiable at the rate of .
per cent adj valorenI under paragraph l1 %
the present Law a. manufactures of metal no
specially provided for. a. classified 10y the col
lcctor. according 10 a decision lu-t hande,
down by the Board of General Appraisers.