Nickel, nickel oxide, and matte-Domestic exports (fiscal years)—Continued. Nickel, nickel oxide, and matte-Domestic exports (calendar years). According to Price Bulletin No. 34 of the War Industries Beard, 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 is quoted from 3 to 5 cents per pound additional over ingot and shot prices. 1883 191 1890 Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is the Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is the Rates of duty, specifi and ad valorem. 15 cents per pound. 45 per cent ad valore 10 cents per pound.. 45 per cent ad valore 6 cents per pound. 35 per cent ad valorem 6 cents per pound. 45 per cent ad valorem Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is a com- Sheets or strips... Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is a com- Sheets or strips... Articles or wares not specially provided for in this section; Nickel ore and nickel matte-Rates of duty. Tariff classification or description. Nickel, in ore, matte, or other crude form not ready for consump- 667 Ores, of * * * nickel and nickel matte.. Do. Do. Do. 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 167 of the act of 1894. (Dept. Order, T. D. 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 v. 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 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, T. 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. (Abstract 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 v. U. S., 2 Ct. Cust. Appls., 162.) 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. p. 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. (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 36829.) о |