Schedule Tare

Summary of Schedule Tare

A tare weight specified in the U.S. Customs Regulations that shall be deducted from the weight of certain products for the application of specific duties. The following are the schedule tares provided for in Customs Regulations, 19 CFR 159.22(c): Apple boxes: Eight pounds per box. This schedule tare includes paper wrappers, if any, on the apples.

China clay in the so-called half-ton casks: Seventy-two pounds per cask.

Figs in skeleton cases: Actual tare for outer containers plus 13 percent of the gross weight of the inside wooden boxes and figs.

Fresh tomatoes: Four ounces per 100 paper wrappings.

Lemons and oranges: Ten ounces per box and 5 ounces per half box for paper wrappings, and actual tare for outer containers.

Ocher, dry, in casks: Eight percent of the gross weight. Ocher, in oil, in casks: Twelve percent of the gross weight.

Pimientos in tins imported from Spain: The following schedule drained weight shall be used as the customs dutiable weight in the liquidation of entries, the difference between the weight of the net contents of pimientos in tins and such drained weight being the allowance made in liquidation for tare for water:

Size can Drained weight

3 kilo 30 lb.-case of 6 tins

28 oz. 36.72 lb.–case of 24 tins

15 oz. 17.72 lb.-case of 24 tins

7 oz. 8.62 lb.-case of 24 tins

4 oz. 5.33 lb.-case of 24 tins

(Main Author: William J. Miller)