---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 391"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "391"
heading: "Ascertainment of duties on grain"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/391"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions"
  - "Subtitle IV — Customs Administration"
  - "Part 3 — ascertainment, collection, and recovery of duties"
---

# §391. Ascertainment of duties on grain


For the purpose of estimating the duties on importations of grain, the number of bushels shall be ascertained by weight, instead of by measuring; and sixty pounds of wheat, fifty-six pounds of corn, fifty-six pounds of rye, forty-eight pounds of barley, thirty-two pounds of oats, sixty pounds of peas, and forty-two pounds of buckwheat, avoirdupois weight, shall respectively be estimated as a bushel.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2919.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2919 derived from act July 18, 1866, ch. 201, § 38, 14 Stat. 187.