ARTHUR, Collector, v. PASTOR & Others

Citations

• 109 U.S. 139
• 3 S. Ct. 96
• 27 L. Ed. 882
• 1883 U.S. LEXIS 944

Syllabus

<p>Customs Duties — Wool.</p> <p>The statute imposing duties divides foreign .wool into three classes, and enacts, among other things, that the duty on wool of the first class, which shall be imported washed, shall be twice the amount of the duty to which it would be subjected if imported unwashed; and further, that wools;of that class shall pay a specific duty per pound, and an ad valorem duty in addition. Held, that the specific duty by weight is to be calculated on the same number of pounds in each case, and is to be twice the amount for washed wool that it is for unwashed; and that the ad valorem duty on washed wool is to be twice the ad valorem duty op. the same number of .pounds of unwashed wool.</p>