84 F. 152 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York | 1897
The article in question here is kit-tul, which is of the fiber of the leaf stalks of the jaggery palm of East India. It is taken to England, and dressed by being combed between steel brushes with a little oil to soften it for taldng out kinks and curls, slightly coloring it, and making it straight for bunching by lengths for brushes. The tariff act of 1890, by section 4, provided for a duty on “all raw or unmanufactured articles not enumerated or provided for,” of 10 per cent, ad valorem, and on “all articles manufactured in whole or in part,” of 20 per cent, ad valorem; and by paragraph 597 made sunn, “and all other textile grasses, or fibrous vegetable substances, unmanufactured, or undressed, not specially provided for,” and by paragraph 653, “moss, sea weeds and