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[CITE: 19USC1507]

 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
       Part III--Ascertainment, Collection, and Recovery of Duties
 
Sec. 1507. Tare and draft


(a) In general

    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.

(b) Crude oil and petroleum products

    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.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 507, 46 Stat. 732; Pub. L. 100-
418, title I, Sec. 1902(a), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1312.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 506, 42 Stat. 968. That section 
was superseded by section 507 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this 
section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
    A prior provision relative to the allowance of tare, prohibiting any 
allowance for draught, was contained in R.S. Sec. 2898, prior to repeal 
by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 642, 42 Stat. 989.


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-418 designated existing provision as subsec. (a), 
substituted ``(except as otherwise provided in this section) there shall 
not be'' for ``in no case shall there be'', and added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1988 Amendment

    Section 1902(b) of Pub. L. 100-418, as amended by Pub. L. 100-647, 
title IX, Sec. 9001(a)(18), Nov. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 3808, provided 
that: ``The amendment made by this section [amending this section] shall 
apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, after October 1, 1988.''