---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 208"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "208"
heading: "Variations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/208"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time"
  - "Subchapter III — Standard Gauge for Iron and Steel"
---

# §208. Variations


In the practical use and application of the standard gauge esablished[^1] in [section 206 of this title](/usc/15/206.md) a variation of 2½ percent, either way may be allowed.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “established”.

## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 221, § 3, 27 Stat. 746.)