Show decision favorable to 10 tobacco men new york nov 39 A decision ot of much importance to the tobacco import trig ao 10 interest has been rendered by ibe I 1 board ol 01 general appraisers la in favor of the importer the case wae was a teat one coming upon a protest made by rothe child bro tobacco merchants of this city a ruling of collector didwell in regard ta to the clae ol 01 four our balee bales ot of tobacco and the assessment ot of duty thereon the reou the balee bales consisted chiefly of filled tobacco by the tike deci sion of the collector the tile filler and wr it P per cu kena were eppa rated and all the tile wrapper waa ae seemed for duly duty ai te fc alt per pound a while the tile filler waa was dutiable at 35 cents per po pound und the importers caal claimed med that each bale should be at hessed as a unit of 35 cents per boand and that so email an amount re leea less than 15 16 per cent of 0 wrapper tobacco could not properly be separated from it the question at issue excited great interest not only amace tobacco import ere here but among a cigar manufacturers ID in florida andja and a lawyer of 0 that elate state I 1 mr gunby came on here to arcao the case before the general for the importers the decision upholding the importers says in oart part in mixed balee bales containing various per cen cent agee ot of wrapper tobacco less than 15 per cent to each bale and the remainder all filler tobacco Is a dutiable dut table under said paragraph at 35 cents per pound aa as filler tobacco not specially provided for the two grades radee of ca cannot be constructively con rely separated and assee assessed sed for duty as part wrapper and part filler but each bale in must be classed as an entirety I 1 |