...value; and the words, "component material of chief value," wherever used in this act, shall be held to mean that component material which shall exceed...article; and the value of each component material shall l>e determined by the ascertained value of such material in its condition as found in the article....

...manufacture in part of metal, metal being the other of its component materials. Section 5 requires that "If two or more rates of duty shall be applicable...article, it shall pay duty at the highest of such rates." The clock is dutiable, consequently, as manufacture of china, at 60 per cent. In regard to the claim...

...properly made in accordance with the rate governing the component material of chief value, this value to be "determined by the ascertained value of such material in its condition as found in the article." as required by section 5 of the new tariff act. which corresponds to section 2499 of .the US Revised...

...value; and the words "component material of chief value, ' ' wherever used in this Act, shall be held to mean that component material which shall exceed...article it shall pay duty at the highest of such rates. SEC. 5. That all articles of foreign manufacture, such as are usually or ordinarily marked, stamped,...

...value ; and the words "component material of chief value," wherever used in this act, shall be held to mean that component material which shall exceed...article it shall pay duty at the highest of such rates. SEC. 6. That on and after the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, all articles of...

...be of such magnitude as to prevent Congress, in the act of 1890, from providing particularly that " the value of each component material shall be determined...material in its condition as found in the article," and thus putting the question at rest. We regard this as merely declaratory of the law. There is another...

...Schedule L. Section 2499 of the Revised Statutes, as found in the act of March 3, 1883, declares that if two or more rates of duty shall be applicable to any imported article, it shall be classified for duty under the highest of such rates. That provision controls in this case, and as...

...value, ' ' "and the words "component material of chief value," wherever used in this Act, shall be held to mean that component material which shall exceed...material in its condition as found in the article." Fifth provision — "If two or more rates of duty shall be applicable to any imported article it shall...

...and the words "component material of chief value." whenever used in this act, shall be held to rucan that component material which shall exceed in value...any other single component material of the article ; anil the value of eaeli component material shall be determined by the ascertained value of such material...

...which shall exceed in value any '•ilicr single component material of the article ; ancl lie vulue of each component material shall be determined by the ascertained value of such material in »•* condition as found in the article. If two or more rates of duty shell be applicable to any imported...