Case Name: HORSTMANN, VON HEIN & CO. v. UNITED STATES
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1903-02-13
Citations: 121 F. 147
Docket Number: 
Parties: HORSTMANN, VON HEIN & CO. v. UNITED STATES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 121
Pages: 147–147

Head Matter:
HORSTMANN, VON HEIN & CO. v. UNITED STATES.
(Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
February 13, 1903.)
1 Customs Duties — Cotton Velvet Fabric Trimmings.
Trimmings cut out of cotton velvet fabric, in various open and scroll work designs and colors, are dutiable as pile cotton fabrics, under the second proviso of paragraph 315 of the tariff act of July 24, 1897 (30 Stat. 178 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1659]), and not as cotton trimmings, at 60 per cent, ad valorem, under paragraph 339 (30 Stat. 181 [U. S. ■ Comp. St. 1901, p. 1662]).
Albert Comstock, for appellants.
Charles D. Baker, Asst. U. S. Atty.

Opinion:
WHEELER, District Judge.
These are trimmings cut out of cotton velvet fabrics, in various open and scroll work designs and colors, and were assessed as cotton trimmings, at 6o per cent, ad valorem, under paragraph 339 of 'the act of July 24, 1897 (30 Stat. 181 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1662]), relating to cotton fabrics, against a protest that they come under the second proviso of paragraph 315 (30 Stat. 178 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1659]), relating to cotton pile fabrics. The articles covered by these paragraphs seem to be divided on the line between those that are and those that are not pile fabrics. These trimmings are clearly in the pile fabric class, and not in the other. That proviso covers "manufactures or articles in any form made or cut from plushes, velvets, velveteens, corduroys or other pile fabrics composed of cotton." They seem to fall exactly within that description.
Decisions reversed.