1 Imports of cotton bagging by countries were included prior to 1895 in the classification of "bags and bagging."

2 Quantities of cotton bagging imported by countries are first given, beginning with 1912.

TABLE 12.-Imports for consumption-Revenue, under tariff acts 1890, 1894, 1897,

1909, and 1913.

BAGGING FOR COVERING COTTON-continued.

TABLE 12.-Imports for consumption—Revenue, under tariff acts 1890, 1894, 1897, 1909, and 1913-Continued.

3 From July 25, 1897, to June 30, 1898.

1 From Oct. 4, 1913, to June 30, 1914.

5 Imports during the calenar year 1921 were 3,372,000 square yards, valued at $309,897.

1914...

1915..

1916..

1917.

BAGGING FOR COVERING COTTON-continued.

TABLE 13.-Prices of new domestic bagging, 1898-1921—Continued.
(Wholesale price per linear yard of first grade, 2-pound bagging.)

1 From 1914, all prices are for delivery at Savannah.

TABLE 14.—Prices of imported bagging, 1914–1921.
(Wholesale price per linear yard of first grade, 2-pound bagging.)
Data from C. Lee McMillan & Co. (Ltd.), New Orleans, La.

TABLE 15.-Prices of domestic rewoven bagging and sugar-bag cloth, 1914–1921.

(Wholesale price per linear yard.)

Data for rewoven bagging from Carolina Bagging Co., Henderson, N. C.; for sugar-bag cloth from Young & Metzner, Long Island City, N. Y.

BAGGING FOR COVERING COTTON-Continued.

TABLE 16.—Prices of domestic patches for covering cotton, 1916–1921.

Rates of duty-cotton bagging—1883–1913.

Tariff classification or description.

Rates of duty, specific and ad valorem.

Bagging for cotton, or other manufactures, not specially enumer- | 13 cents per pound.
ated or provided for in this act, suitable to the uses for which
cotton bagging is applied, composed in whole or in part of
hemp, jute, jute butts, flax, gunny bags, gunny cloth, or
other material, and va úed at 7 cents or less per square yard.
Valued at over 7 cents per square yard............

Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth, and all similar material suit-
able for covering cotton, composed in whole or in part of hemp,
flax, jute, or jute butts, valued at 6 cents or less per square
yard.

Valued at more than 6 cents per square yard....

3921 Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth, and all similar material suit-
able for covering cotton, composed in who'e or in part of hemp,
flax, jute, or jute butts.

Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth, and similar fabrics, suitab`e
for covering cotton, composed of sing e yarns made of jute,
jute butts, or hemp, not beached, dyed, colored, stained,
painted, or printed, not exceeding 15 threads to the squaré
inch, counting the warp and filiing, and weighing not less
than 15 ounces per square yard.

...do...

Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth, and similar fabrics, suitable
for covering cotton, composed of sing e yarns made of jute,
jute butts, seg, Russian seg, New Zealand tow, Norwegian
tow, a oe, mili waste, cotton tares, or other material not
bleached, dyel, co ored, stained, painted, or printed, not ex-
ceeding 1 threads to the square inch, counting the warp and
filling, and weighing not ies; than 15 ounces per square
yard ***

COURT AND TREASURY DECISIONS.

2 cents per pound.
1.6 cents per square
yard.

1.8 cents per square
yard.
Free.

Six-tenths of 1 cept per square yard.

Do.

Free.

1

Pieces of old bagging extensively used as patchings for cotton bales, and bagging as removed from bales, which might be used as covering or patches for cotton bales, and jute bagging, consisting of pieces of old bagging and of sugar bags, cut and torn, classified as waste, at 10 per centum ad valorem under paragraph 479 of the act of 1909 (T. D. 31776, of 1911), were held to be exempt from duty under paragraph 408 of the act of 1913, inasmuch as new bagging for cotton, gunny cloth, and similar fabrics suitable for covering cotton are free thereunder. (T. D. 34297, of 1914.)

* * * Patches for cotton bales composed of single jute yarn having the word "Paton" stenciled thereon for the purpose of identification

were held to be exempt from duty as bagging for cotton not printed under paragraph 408 and not dutiable as a manufacture of vegetable fiber under paragraph 284, of the act of 1913. (Abstract 40726, of 1917.)

Jute bagging patches, striped and twilled, and not composed of single yarns were held dutiable under paragraph 284 of the act of 1913. (Abstract 39855, of 1916.) . G. A. ‍8374, T. D. 38506, of 1920. Cotton patches, whether twill_woven or colored, or whether made from plain woven fabrics of single jute yarns, not colored, were held dutiable under paragraph 384 of the act of 1913, as waste not specially provided for. (G. A. 8374, T. D. 38506, of 1920; modified by McGettrick v. United States, 11 Ct. Cust. Appls., of 1921; T. D. 38727.)

Worn bags which have become unavailable for use as bags have not necessarily become unavailable for use as fabrics. Bags which are simply cut down one side and through both ends are no longer bags, but they are still fabrics. If the material is so worn as to be no better than rags, fragments, or shreds, and is not such as is chiefly used for paper making, it is free of duty under paragraph 586, tariff act of 1913, as rags, "not otherwise specially provided for * * * "" If it is commercially and chiefly used as paper stock, it is free of duty as such under paragraph 566. If it is no longer commercially suitable for any textile purpose and is not specially provided for as rags or paper stock or under some other more specific designation, it may be classed as a waste under paragraph 384. If it is still a fabric and is "plain woven * * * of single jute yarns *** not bleached, *of dyed, colored, stained, printed, or rendered noninflammable ***" it must be classified as such under paragraph 408. (McGettrick v. United States, 11 Ct. Cust. Appls., —; T. D. 38727, of 1921, modifying T. D. 38506, of 1920.)

Secondhand jute sugar bags, twill woven and printed, apparently of whole and sound fabric, with the exception that some of them are sticky with sugar, but which the appraiser reports can be used as containers and which bags are indiscriminately mixed, were held dutiable under paragraph 284, tariff act of 1913 as manufactures of vegetable fiber and not under paragraph 384, or free under paragraph 566. (G. A. 8397; T. D. 38572, of 1920; affirmed in Downing v. United States, 11 Ct. Cust. Appls. ; T. D. 38730.)