The  appraising  officers  also  consided  the  general  question  as  to  the  proper  classi-
fication of  so-called  garueted,  carbonated,  and  other  similar  wool  wastes,  and  report
that,  in  their  opinion,  any  process  of  manufacture  whereby  the  value  and  character
of  a  refuse  article,  such  as  waste  of  wool  as  in  the  cases  mentioned,  have  been
changed  or  enhanced  and  its  identity  as  a  waste  or  worthless  substance  destroyed,
so  that  it  becomes  in  fact  scoured  wool,  it  no  longer  belongs  to  the  category  of  waste
but  should  be  classified  as  scoured  wool,  which  it  actually  is.  It  is  further  stated
that  "the  so-called  carbonated  and  garueted  wastes  have  undergone  a  very  decided
process  of  manufacture ;  their  value  has  been  increased  to  within  a  trifle  of  the  valne
of  wool  itself;  their  appearance  is  made  so  closely  to  resemble  the  actual  article  as
to  deceive  eveu  experts,  and  by  an  admixture  of  the  manufactured  article  with  the
natural  wooLtheir  purposes  of  use  are  identically  the  same,"  and  should,  they  think,
be  classified  for  duty  at  the  same  rate  as  the  wool  from  whence  they  came,  and  made
so  closely  to  resemble.
These  views  accord  with  the  rulings  of  the  Department  above  mentioned,  and
seem  to  be  correct  and  proper.     (9508.)


Treasury  Department,  Jnhj  S4,  1889.
