in England of Egyptian cotton, and is therefore the leading yarn imported into the United States. No. 5. A tube of 140/2 gray carded yarn. No. 6. A spool (in England called a "bobbin ") of 36/1 white polished yarn. No. 8. A tube or cheese of 60/2 combed Egyptian for machine knitting. PLATE NO. 3. Plate No. 3 illustrates some of the forms in which sewing thread and special yarns are put up for shipment and entered under paragraph 251 of the act of 1913. No. 1. Sewing thread on spools. yards; No. 40." Dyed. Labeled "Machine twist; silk substitute; 100 No. 2. Sewing thread on spools. No. 3. Sewing thread on spools. No. 4. Crochet cotton in ball form. 150 yards wound on a core of cardboard tubing. Dyed. "Soft finish, three cord; 50 yards." Bleached. "Patent glacé finish; 90 yards." Dyed. No. 5. Crochet cotton in a minute ball. 64 yards. Dyed. No. 6. Crochet cotton on flat pasteboard reel. 30 yards. Dyed. No. 7. Darning cotton in ball form. "Silk finish;" 45 yards. Dyed. No. 8. Darning cotton on wooden spools. 45 yards. Dyed. No. 9. Ball of soft spun yarn marked "For crocheting, embroidering, and knitting." 104 yards wound on a core of cardboard tubing. Bleached. No. 10. A spool, or rather cheese with wooden core, of 3/2 ply black gassed mercerized yarn for embroidering or knitting. No. 11. A very soft wound ball of knitting cotton. 60 yards. Dyed. No. 12. A skein of mercerized and dyed 2-ply yarn for hand embroidery. Marked "No. 3." 100 yards put up in regular skeins of 54 inches perimeter. No. 13. A skein of mercerized and dyed 2-ply yarn for hand embroidery. 22 yards put up in skein of 36 inches perimeter. No. 14. A small skein of embroidery cotton such as was largely imported before the war from Dollfus-Mieg Co. of Mulhouse. Marked "8 mèt. D. M. C. 25. Mouline special. 8.7 yards" and "394." Two-ply mercerized and dyed. No. 15. A schiffli tube of 60/2-ply yarn for machine embroidery. This yarn differs in no respect from 60/2 shown as No. 8 in Plate No. 2, except that it is put up in a slightly smaller tube, but it is, by virtue of Treasury Decision 36988, admitted at a lower rate of duty because it is to be used on an embroidery machine instead of on a knitting machine. No. 16. Three "4/4 schiffli bobbins" of 98/2-ply yarn for machine embroidery. As in the case of No. 15 this yarn logically belongs under paragraph 250 rather than paragraph 251 and the only reason assigned for preferential treatment is that it is intended for embroidering. THE PHRASEOLOGY OF TARIFF PARAGRAPHS ON COTTON YARN AND COTTON SEWING THREAD. The basic definitions of the articles covered by paragraphs 250 and 251 of the tariff act of 1913 are phrased as follows: PAR. 250. Cotton thread and carded yarn, warps, or warp yarn, whether on beams or in bundles, skeins, or cops, or in any other form * * * except spool thread of cotton, crochet, darning and embroidery cottons, hereinafter provided for * * |