In T.D. 92-108, Customs notes: "[n]one of the definitions [submitted to Customs] actually quantify `substantial.' It is always expressed in other terms which clearly convey the meaning. Certainly, a 40% encirclement is a substantial encirclement of the perimeter of the shoe in that it conforms exactly to the dictionary definitions of `substantial' by being ample, considerable in quantity, significantly large and largely, but not wholly that which is specified." 26 Cust. Bull. at 366. When the term "substantially" is used as an adverb preceding a verb, the term means "in a substantial manner: so as to be substantial." Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (1968).
"[n]one of the definitions actually quantify When the term "substantially" is used as an adverb preceding a verb, the term means "in a substantial manner