Dutiable  charges — Cost  of  weighing  wool,  etc. — The  appraiser  in  these
cases  added  to  the  invoice  price  certain  charges,  to  wit,  charges  incurred  in  weigh-
ing, porterage,  labor  of  pressing  canvas  and  hoops  to  make  dutiable  value,  and  the
collector  included  such  charges  in  the  value  for  classification  of  certain  wool  under
section  19  of  the  act  of  June  10,  1890,  which  provides  that  whenever  imported  mer-
chandise is  subject  to  an  ad  valorem  rate  of  duty,  or  to  a  duty  based  upon  or  regu-
lated in  any  manner  by  the  value  thereof,  the  value  of  all  cartons,  cases,  crates,
boxes,  sacks,  and  coverings  of  any  kind,  and  all  other  costs,  charges,  and  expenses
incident  to  placing  the  merchandise  in  condition  packed  ready  for  shipment  to  the
United  States  shall  be  part  of  the  purchase  price  or  foreign  market  value  thereof

The  protests  claim  that  said  charges  were  incurred  after  the  bales  of  wool  consti-
tuting the  importation  were  packed  and  in  a  condition  ready  for  shipment,  and
hence  that  they  were  not  dutiable.     Thia  is  the  issue  made  by  the  ijleadiugs.
256  WOOL  AND  MANUFACTURES  OF  WOOL.
