---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 580"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "580"
heading: "Interest in suits on bonds for recovery of duties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/580"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions"
  - "Subtitle IV — Customs Administration"
  - "Part 6 — general provisions"
---

# §580. Interest in suits on bonds for recovery of duties


Upon all bonds, on which suits are brought for the recovery of duties, interest shall be allowed, at the rate of 6 per centum a year, from the time when said bonds became due.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 963.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 963 derived from act Mar. 2, 1799, ch. 22, § 65, 1 Stat. 676.

Section was formerly classified to section 787 of Title 28 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 869.