#### § 372.115 Commodities that are not exempt under [49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)](https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/49/13506).

[49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)](https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/49/13506) provides an exemption from regulation for motor vehicles used in carrying ordinary livestock, fish, and unmanufactured agricultural commodities. Certain specific commodities have been statutorily determined to be non-exempt. Administrative Ruling No. 133, which is reproduced below, is a list of those commodities that are non-exempt by statute.

# Administrative Ruling No. 133

# List of Commodities That Are Not Exempt by Statute Under [49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)](https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/49/13506)

*Animal fats*

*Butter*

*Canned fruits and vegetables*

*Carnauba wax as imported in slabs or chunks*

*Cattle, slaughtered*

*Charcoal*

*Cheese*

*Coal*

*Cocoa beans*

*Coffee, beans, roasted, or instant*

*Copra meal*

*Cotton yarn*

*Cottonseed cake or meal*

*Diatomaceous earth*

*Dinners, frozen*

*Feeds:*

Alfalfa meal

Alfalfa pellets

Beet pulp

Bran shorts

Copra meal

Corn gluten

Distilled corn grain residues, with or without solubles added

Fish meal

Hominy feed

Middlings

Pelletized ground refuse screenings

Wheat bran

Wheat shorts

*Fertilizer, commercial*

*Fish:*

Canned or salted as a treatment for preserving

Cooked or partially cooked fish or shrimp, frozen or unfrozen

Hermetically sealed in containers as a treatment for preserving

Oil from fishes

Preserved, or treated for preserving, such as smoked, salted, pickled, spiced, corned or kippered

*Flagstone*

*Flaxseed meal*

*Flour*

*Forest products:*

Resin products, such as turpentine

*Fruits and Berries:*

Bananas, fresh, dried, dehydrated, or frozen

Canned

Frozen

Hulls of oranges after juice extractions

Juice, fruit, plain or concentrated

Pies, frozen

Preserved, such as jam

Purees, strawberry and other, frozen

*Grains:*

Oils extracted from grain

Popcorn, popped

Rice, precooked

Wheat germ

*Gravel*

*Hair, hog or other animal, product of slaughter of animal*

*Hay, sweetened with 3 percent molasses by weight*

*Hemp fiber*

*Hides, green and salted*

*Insecticides*

*Limestone, agricultural*

*Livestock:*

Monkeys

Race horses

Show horses

Zoo animals

*Lumber, rough sawed or planed*

*Maple syrup*

*Meal:*

Alfalfa

Copra

Cottonseed

Fish

Flaxseed

Linseed

Peanut

Soybean

*Meat and meat products, fresh, frozen or canned*

*Milk and Cream:*

Chocolate

Condensed

Sterilized in hermetically sealed cans

*Molasses*

*Nuts (including peanuts):*

Peanut meal

Roasted or boiled

*Oil, mint*

*Oil, extracted from vegetables, grain, seed, fish or other commodity*

*Pelts*

*Pies, frozen*

*Pigeons, racing*

*Pulp, beet*

*Pulp, sugar cane*

*Rock (except natural crushed, vesicular rock to be used for decorative purposes)*

*Rubber, crude, in bales*

*Rubber, latex, natural, liquid, from which water has been extracted and to which ammonia has been added*

*Sand*

*Seeds:*

Oil extracted from seeds

*Skins, animal*

*Soil, potting*

*Soil, top*

*Soup, frozen*

*Sugar*

*Sugar cane pulp*

*Sugar raw*

*Syrup, cane*

*Syrup, maple*

*Tea*

*Tobacco:*

Cigars and cigarettes

Homogenized

Smoking

*Top Soil*

*Trees:*

Sawed into lumber

*Vegetables:*

Candied sweet potatoes, frozen

Canned

Cooked

French fried potatoes

Oil, extracted from vegetables

Soup, frozen

Soybean meal

*Wool imported from a foreign country*

*Wool tops and noils*

*Wool waste (carded, spun, woven, or knitted)*

*Wool yarn*

Note 1:

Under [49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)(D)](https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/49/13506), any listed fish or shellfish product that is not intended for human consumption is *exempt.*

Note 2:

Under [49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)(E)](https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/49/13506), any listed livestock feed, poultry feed, agricultural seeds, or plants that are transported to a site of agricultural production or to a business enterprise engaged in the sale to agricultural producers of goods used in agricultural production is *exempt*

[[53 FR 17707](https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/53-FR-17707), May 18, 1988, as amended at [62 FR 15421](https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/62-FR-15421), Apr. 1, 1997]