Nickel, nickel oxide, and matte-Domestic exports (fiscal years). Pounds. 563, 199 213,950 29 587 Pounds. 762,377 $1,023, 354 293, 720 100 3,681 Pounds, 134,543 4,578 $734,7 1,937, 14 51.9 241,8 40 340, 1, 88 247 10,516 40 1,030 10,013, 776 Total. 9,880, 859 3, 218, 862 9, 148, 482 2,948, 058 3,395, 17 1910 1911 1912 Exported to Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Pounds. 3,697, 124 7, 166, 322 1,212, 339 436,953 Pounds. United Kingdom. $1,537, 329 $1, 186, 100 455, 100 Pounds. 551, 740 1,321, 733 2,527, 273 3,373 $3,111, 453 2,337,33 2,099.) 2119,22 309, 100 480,000 1,111 604,939 1,902, 393 8, 926 232,950 326, 245 2,920 15 628 547 4,005 1,039 6,806 2, 303 1, 957 Total 13,652, 407 4, 532, 897 18,947, 810 6,004, 414 26, 561, 990 8,749, 675 1913 1914 1915 Exported to Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. 1 :: United Kingdom. Pounds. Pounds. 22,033 3, 210, 980 210, 612 2, 365, 177 1,036, 242 67,200 31, 159 186, 626 700 367,696 52, 949 1, 779 1,913 2,028 537 308, 444 2,657 1,012 22, 700 27,881,277 9, 275, 714 | 28, 895, 242 9, 403, 709 29,599, 612 $5, 878, 719 8,513 1, 168, 022 79, 00 970,617 250, 100 20,000 17,512 10, 117 2, 340,900 300 168, 420 19, 223 751 131, 465 10,21 Total. 11, 110,699 Includes Russia in Europe and Russia in Asia. Nickel, nickel ocide, and matte-Domestic exports (fiscal years)-Continued. 84, 225, 822 765,671 2,077, 802 United Kingdom.. 534 Pounds. Pounds. 139, 300 60,049 506, 588 220, 777 1,168,086 584,043 983 29, 051 11, 702 33,614 13, 200 158 79 313, 958 1,098 14, 416 9, 153 10,363 142 4,000 66,520 35, 760 14,844 527 70, 254 201, 156 4,948 2,000 459, 689 7,800 318 33,759 102, 159 Total.. 7,680,502 Nickel, nickel oxide, and matte--Domestic exports (calendar years). Belgium. Pounds. 442, 680 525, 940 35,9 2 2, 233, 736 4,095 69, 622 $221,043 12,067 $864, 966 2,085,912 2, 254, 393 1, 491 61, 960 2,063, 933 1,433, 751 17, 469, 500 30,889 1, 102, 197 587, 193 6,927,041 547 352, 834 123, 196 333 164, 781 62 211 Total.. 3,810, 656 1,697,544 1,215, 232 574, 845 Prices." Year. Nickel shot Monel-metal Year. Nickel shot. Monel-metal and ingots. ingots. 1913. 1914. 1915. 1916. 1917. 40-45 17 1918. 343 25 32 35 35 According to Price Bulletin No. 34 of the War Industries Board, the average contract price (governing the bulk of sales) of shot and ingot was 36.50 cents per pound throughout the period 1913-1918 (inclusive). * Electrolytic nickel as quoted from 3 to 5 cents per pound additional over ingot and shot prices. Nickel--Rates of duty. Act of - Par. Tariff classification or description. Rates of duty, speció and ad valorem. * * Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is the 15 cents per pound. element of chief value. provided for in this act, composed wholly or in part of * or any other metal, and whether partly or component material of chief value. provided for in this act, composed wholly or in part of * or any other metal, and whether partly or component material of chief value. act, composed wholly or in part of any metal, and whether ponent material os chief value, in pigs, ingots, bars, or sheets. wholly or in part of * nickel, * * or other metal, ponent material of chief value, in pigs, ingots, bars, rods, or 35 per cent ad valorem. Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickelis a com- : 10 per cent ad valorem. ponent material of chief value, in pigs, ingots, bars, rods, or | 20 per cent ad valorem. Articles or wares not specially provided for in this section; Do. * if composed wholly or in chief value of * * nickel, or other metal, but not plated with gold or silver, and whether partly or wholly manufactured. * * Nickel ore and nickel matte-Rutes of duty. Act of-, Par. Tariff classification or description. Rates of duty, specific and ad valorem. Nickel, in ore, matte, or other crude form not ready for consump- 15 cents per pound. tion in the arts, on the nickel contained therein. Free. Do. Do, Do. ..do.. Do. * 1894 1897 1909 1913 573 629 613 565 ...do. COURT AND TREASURY DECISIONS. Pure nickel in the form of plates was held dutiable under the provision for nickel in paragraph 192 of the act of 1883, which, being without limitation as to form, was applied to that metal whether in granules, cubes, ingots, plates, or otherwise, so long as it had not been manufactured in some particular article or ware. (Appeal, T. D. 6064.) So were nickel rods and sheets under paragraph 1671 of the act of 1894. (Dept. Order, T. 1. 19776.) Wire made of nickel alloy was held not dutiable under the act of 1894 as an alloy, but as a manufactured article n. s. p. f. (Boker 1. U. S., 97 Fed., 205.) Plates were held excluded from paragraph 185 of the act of 1897 because not regarded as being in any of the forms therein mentioned. Provision was made in that paragraph for nickel, nickel oxide, and alloy of any kind in which nickel is a component material of chief value, in pigs, ingots, bars, or sheets. A distinction was declared to be made in the trade between bars and rods on the one hand and sheets and plates of nickel on the other hand. (Abstract 17563, T. D. 28597.) Resistance strips composed of nickel alloy 200 feet long and 2 inches wide were held excluded from paragraph 185 under the act of 1897 because not nickel alloy in pigs, ingots, bars, or sheets. They were held dutiable as manufactures of nickel under paragraph 193. These strips were apparently rolled from wire. (G. A. 5373, T. D. 24561.) But nickel in pieces 6 or 7 feet long, from 23 to 6 inches wide, and 0.025 of an inch thick, which had been cut from sheets of the same length and thickness, '10 to 12 inches wide, was found to be known as sheet metal or sheet nickel and were held dutiable accordingly under the provision for nickel in sheets. (G. A. 6046, T. D. 26375.) Anodes consisting of nickel plates about 12 inches long, 6 inches wide, and io of an inch thick, cut from nickel sheets and with holes drilled in them for suspension in a bath in electroplating, were held not dutiable as sheets of nickel, but as a manufacture of nickel under the act of 1897. (Boker v. U.S., 157 Fed., 1003.) Nickel in any one of the forms enumerated was held covered by the provision in the act of 1897 for “nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is a component material of chief value, in pigs, ingots, bars, or sheets." Anodes consisting of plates of nickel, whether with holes drilled through or without, were likewise held dutiable under paragraph 193 of the act of 1897 as a manufacture of nickel n. s. p. f. (G. A. 6693, L'. D. 28624.) Hot-rolled wire rods or bars, composed of an alloy of nickel and copper, nickel chief value, were held dutiable as nickel in bars under the act of 1897. The only question was whether the imported article Was in the form of bars. (lbstract 14017, T. D. 27801.) A plate of iron or steel of an inch thick, on which a sheet of nickel or copper, varying in thickness from 1} to 20 per cent of the iron or steel and about three times as valuable as the iron or steel, had been laid and welded by hot rolling, the combined parts varying in thickness after the rolling process from 0.015 to 0.070 of an inch and exceeding No. 10 wire gauge in thickness, was held dutiable under the act of 1897 as a manufacture of metal and not as a sheet of iron or steel. The welding together of pieces of metal by a process of hot rolling such as was pursued in this case was declared not to come within the meaning of the word “coating." (Boker 2. U. S., 2 Ct. Cust. Appls., Wire made of nickel and iron produced by forcing an iron or steel wire core into a nickel tube or shell and then drawing down the article to the required size was held dutiable as wire, n. s. 1. f., and not as iron or steel wire coated with nickel. (G. A. 6414, T. D. 27544.) Nickel-plated zinc sheets were held dutiable as manufactures of metal and not as zinc in sheets under the act of 1909 and prior laws. 162.) (Victor v. U. S., 128 Fed., 472, T. D. 25005; Eckstein v. U. S., 145 Fed., 1021, T. D. 27229, affirming 140 Fed., 94; followed in G. A. 6347, T. D. 27303; G. A. 78, T. D. 10387; G. A. 5296, T. D. 24281; Abstract 30645, T. D. 32997.) Strips of metal assessed under paragraph 199 of the act of 1909 were found to be nickel specially provided for in paragraph 185. (Abstract 33730, T. D. 33778.) Wire composed of nickel alloy was held properly classified under paragraph 199 of the act of 1909 as a manufacture of metal. (Abstract 34906, T. D. 34219.) Nickel-plated steel strips put up in coils, nickel chief value, were held dutiable as manufactures of metal and not as strips of steel under the act of 1909. They were held not galvanized or coated within the meaning of paragraph 122 of that act. The article was commercially known as strip steel nickel plated. (Hirsch v. U. S., 4 Ct. Cust. Appls., 82.) Eccentrics made of cast iron, drilled, reamed, and nickel plated for sewing machines, were held dutiable as manufactures of metal under paragraph 199 of the act of 1909, the provision in paragraph 147 claimed as the proper classification being limited to castings made wholly of iron and not broad enough to cover articles made of cast iron and some other metal. (United States v. Durbrow & Hearne Manufacturing Co., 5 Ct. Cust. Appls., 410.) Nickel steel in bars, classified under the provision in paragraph 110 of the act of 1913 for "steel by whatever process made containing alloy such as nickel” was held not shown by the evidence to be dutiable under paragraph 155 as in chief value of nickel. (Abstract 38980.) Nickel sulphate was held not to be an alloy of nickel, nor nickel, nor as nickel oxide, but dutiable as a chemical compound or salt under the act of 1913. (Abstract 36929.) |