skid chain

I tell you I'm just about all in, lugging all these skid chains about since sunrise.

If that road goin' down is wet, those big horses won't be able to hold back the load and using skid chains won't help much.

Rain spelled skid chains to Bud.

According to the witness, the tire chains are anti-skid chains, not skid chains.

The Shadow fired a last shot at a rear tire; the bullet found the joint of a skid chain and ricocheted from the revolving wheel.

The dark road was icy, and there were no skid chains on Mr. Miller's automobile-he didn't believe in 'em.

Even with skid chains on all four wheels, Babbitt was afraid of sliding, and when he came to the long slide of a hill he crawled down, both brakes on.

In view of the foregoing, restricting the definition of "skid chains" to chains used in forestry skidding operations could only be accomplished by ignoring the French version of the tariff item.

Thus, at a minimum, the phrase "skid chain" in tariff item No. 7315.20.00 refers to chains that are related in function to the slipping or sliding of vehicles due to conditions that would otherwise reduce vehicular traction.

In argument, the appellant submitted that the respondent's classification, "skid chains," is incorrect because in common parlance, the goods in issue are called "tire chains" and not "skid chains."

Customs officials, and ultimately the respondent in this appeal, the Deputy Minister of National Revenue for Customs and Excise, classified the tire chains as skid chains of iron or steel under tariff item No. 7315.20.00.

He sensed that either Foster or his friend turned frequently to look back through the square celluloid window, but he did not pay much attention to them, for the streets were greasy with wet, and not all drivers would equip with four skid chains.

Mr. Rosborough said that the term "skid chains" denotes tire chains with "lugs" welded to the chains and used exclusively in forestry operations to improve vehicular traction in "skidding" operations, i.e. the removal of logs from the forest.

The respondent countered the appellant's contention that the Explanatory Notes exclude the chains in issue from the respondent's chosen tariff item by pointing out that these very same notes explicitly state that heading No. 73.15 includes "automobile skid chains."

The respondent contended that the tire chains in issue are properly classified under tariff item No. 7315.20.00 because these tire chains are made of steel and are used as motor vehicle "skid chains," which mean, according to dictionary definitions, traction chains.

The appellant argued that the chains in issue cannot be classified under tariff item No. 7315.20.00 because such a tariff item is intended to cover only skid chains used in skidding operations and not motor vehicle skid chains such as those which the appellant imported.