19 U.S.C. § 1507
Tare and draft
United States · Title 19 — CUSTOMS DUTIES · Status: effective
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- 19 U.S.C. § 1507, Tare and draft, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/450417
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The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prescribe and issue regulations for the ascertainment of tare upon imported merchandise, including the establishment of reasonable and just schedule tares therefor, but (except as otherwise provided in this section) there shall not be any allowance for draft or for impurities, other than excessive moisture and impurities not usually found in or upon such or similar merchandise.
In ascertaining tare on imports of crude oil, and on imports of petroleum products, allowance shall be made for all detectable moisture and impurities present in, or upon, the imported crude oil or petroleum products.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally