WM. Ropes & Co. v. United States
WM. Ropes & Co. v. United States
Opinion of the Court
(orally). The merchandise in question is a mechanical combination of paraffin, which is a product of petroleum, and of ceresia, which is a fossil wax. Eighty per cent, in weight consists of paraffin, and 20 per cent, in weight of ceresia. Seven-elevenths of its value is wax, and four-elevenths is a product of petroleum. Its chief value, therefore, is wax; and, when thus combined with the petroleum product or paraffin, it constitutes a man
The decision of the board of general appraisers is reversed.
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- WM. ROPES & CO. v. UNITED STATES
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- 1. Customs Duties—Classification—Albolene—Products of Petroleum. The article known as “albolene,” consisting of a mechanical combination of paraffin, a petroleum product, and ceresia, a fossil wax, the paraffin constituting 80 per cent, of the article by weight, but only four-elevenths of its value, is not a product of petroleum, within the meaning of paragraph 626, Free List, § 2, c. 11, Tariff Act July 24, 1897, 30 Stat. 199 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1685), providing for a countervailing duty on “products of petroleum produced in any country which imposes a duty on petroleum or its products exported from the United States,” but is dutiable under paragraph 448, Schedule N, § 1, c. 11, Act July 24, 1897, 30 Stat. 193 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1677), as a manufacture of wax.