Macartney v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “* * * are merely the very much unfinished raw materials from which later the finished article is made and that they are shipped in that form to avoid shipping much excessive material not needed in the finished article.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Northern Cooperage Co. v. United States