...boxes are not the usual coverings of imported tobacco, but there is no evidence that such boxes were designed for use otherwise than in the bona fide transportation of such merchandise to the United States. In fact, the testimony shows that they are not designed for any other use, but are thrown away or cut...

...prescribes * • that if any packages, ' * * boxes, or coverings of auy kind shall be of any material or form designed * * * for use otherwise than in the bona fide transportation of goods to the United States, the same shall be subject to a duty of 100 per cent, ad valorem," &c. Your...

...used for covering or holding imported merchandise, whether dutiable or free, any unusual material, article, or form, designed for use otherwise than...additional duty shall be levied and collected upon euch material or article at the rate to which the same would have been subject if separately imported....

...be used for covering or holding imported merchandise, whether dutiable or free, any unusual material article or form, designed for use otherwise than in...bona fide transportation of such merchandise to th.e Dnited States, additional duty shall be levied and collected upon such material or article at the rate...

...merchandise in condition, packed ready for shipment to the United States, and if there be used for covering or holding imported merchandise, whether dutiable...or article at the rate to which the same would be subr ject if separately imported. That the words "value" or "actual market value " whenever used in...

...dutiable value of such merchandise, further provides that "if there be used for holding or covering imported merchandise, whether dutiable or free, any...additional duty shall be levied and collected upon Mich material or article at the rate at which the same would be subject if separately imported." This...

...of " 100 per centum ad valorem upon the actnal value of the same," coverings of imported merchandise designed for use otherwise than in the bona fide transportation of such merchandise to the United States, etc., applies to free as well as to dutiable importations. 18. . Advixed that the classification of...

...valorem. The importers protested against the decision of the collector, alleging that the boxes are not an unusual article or form designed for use otherwise than in the bona fide transportation of the collar buttons. Ou the hearing, the importers' counsel introduced evidence to show that this firm...

...merchandise contained therein is subject to an ad valorem duty, and an additional duty if the covering is of any unusual article or form designed for use otherwise than in the boua fidi transportation of such merchandise to the United States. In this ca>'the ale and porter,...

...governed by section 19 of the act of June 10, 1890, which provides that— If there be used for covering or holding imported merchandise, whether dutiable...such merchandise to the United States, additional duly shall be levied and collected upon such material or article at the rate to which the same would...