{"data":{"id":"us/49-cfr-1039.11","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"49 CFR 1039.11","heading":"Miscellaneous commodities exemptions.","body":"(a) Commodities exempted. Except as indicated in paragraph (b) of this section, the rail transportation of the commodities listed below is exempt from the provisions of 49 U.S.C. subtitle IV. The Standard Transportation Commodity Code (STCC) numbers that identify the exempted commodities are those in effect on the effective date of the tariff cited, and shall embrace all commodities assigned additional digits.\nSTCC No. STCC tariff Commodity\n14 1 6001-T, eff. 1-1-92 Dimension stone, quarry.\n14 2 ......do Crushed or broken stone or riprap.\n14 411 ......do Sand (aggregate or ballast).\n14 412 ......do Gravel (aggregate or ballast).\n20 ......do Food or kindred products except\n20 143 Grease or inedible tallow.\n20 32 Canned specialties.\n20 33 Canned fruits, jams, jellies, preserves or vegetables.\n20 4 Grain mill products.\n20 6 Sugar, beet or cane.\n20 8 Beverages or flavoring extracts.\n20 911 Cottonseed oil, crude or refined.\n20 914 Cottonseed cake or meal or by-products.\n20 92 Soybean oil or by-products.\n20 93 Nut or vegetable oils or by-products.\n22 ......do Textile mill products.\n23 ......do Apparel or other finished textile products or knit apparel.\n24 ......do Lumber or wood products.\n25 ......do Furniture or fixtures.\n26 ......do Pulp, paper or allied products except\n26 1 Pulp or pulp mill products.\n26 211 Newsprint.\n26 212 Ground wood paper, uncoated.\n26 213 Printing paper, coated or uncoated, etc.\n26 214 Wrapping paper, wrappers or coarse paper.\n26 218 Sanitary tissue stock.\n26 471 Sanitary tissues or health products.\n26 6 Building paper or building board except\n26 613 Wallboard.\n27 ......do Printed matter.\n28 195 22-23 ......do Iron chloride, liquid.\n28 195 27-30 ......do Iron sulphate.\n28 195 68-69 ......do Ferrous sulphate.\n29 914 ......do Coke produced from coal.\n29 915 ......do Distillate or residual fuel oil from coal refining.\n30 ......do Rubber or miscellaneous plastics products except\n30 111 Rubber pneumatic tires or parts.\n31 ......do Leather or leather products.\n32 ......do Clay, concrete, glass or stone products except\n32 411 Hydraulic cement, natural, portland or masonry.\n32 741 Lime or lime plaster.\n32 95 Nonmetallic earths or minerals, ground or treated in any other manner except\n32 952 15 Cinders, clay, shale expanded shale), slate or volcanic (not pumice stone), or haydrite.\n33 ......do Primary metal products, including galvanized.\n34 ......do Fabricated metal products except\n34 6 Metal stampings.\n34 919 40 Radioactive material shipping containers, etc.\n35 ......do Machinery except\n35 11 Steam engines, turbines, turbine generator sets, or parts.\n35 85 Refrigerators or refrigeration machinery or complete air-conditioning units.\n36 ......do Electrical machinery, equipment or supplies except\n36 12 Power, distribution or specialty transformers.\n36 21 Motors or generators.\n37 11 ......do Motor vehicles.\n37 14 ......do Motor vehicle parts or accessories.\n38 ......do Instruments, photographic goods, optical goods, watches or clocks.\n39 ......do Miscellaneous products of manufacturing.\n41 118 6001-U, eff. 1-1-93 Used vehicles.\n14 715 6001-V, eff. 1-1-94 Rock salt.\n20 143 ......do Grease or inedible tallow.\n28 133 ......do Carbon dioxide.\n28 991 ......do Salt.\n32-4 ......do Hydraulic cement.\n34 912 6001-W, eff. 1-1-95 Steel shipping containers.\n40 211 ......do Iron and steel scrap.\n33 119 6001-X, eff. 1-11-96 Blast furnace, open hearth, rolling mill or coke oven products, NEC.\n20511 6001-X, eff. 1-1-96 Bread or other bakery products exc. biscuits, crackers, pretzels or other dry bakery products. See 20521-20529.\n22941 ......do. Textile waste, garnetted, processed, or recovered or recovered fibres or flock exc. packing or wiping cloths or rags. See 22994.\n22973 ......do. Textile fibres, laps, noils, nubs, roving, sliver or slubs, prepared for spinning, combed or converted.\n22994 ......do. Packing or wiping cloths or rags (processed textile wastes).\n24293 ......do. Shavings or sawdust.\n30311 ......do. Reclaimed rubber.\n3229924 ......do. Cullet (broken glass).\n33312 ......do. Copper matte, speiss, flue dust, or residues, etc.\n33322 ......do. Lead matte, speiss, flue dust, dross, slag, skimmings, etc.\n33332 ......do. Zinc dross, residues, ashes, etc.\n33342 ......do. Aluminum residues, etc.\n33398 ......do. Misc. nonferrous metal residues, including solder babbitt or type metal residues.\n40112 ......do. Ashes.\n40212 ......do. Brass, bronze, copper or alloy scrap, tailings, or wastes.\n40213 ......do. Lead, zinc, or alloy scrap, tailings or wastes.\n40214 ......do. Aluminum or alloy scrap, tailings or wastes.\n4021960 ......do. Tin scrap, consisting of scraps or pieces of metallic tin, clippings, drippings, shavings, turnings, or old worn-out block tin pipe having value for remelting purposes only.\n40221 ......do. Textile waste, scrap or sweepings.\n40231 ......do. Wood scrap or waste.\n40241 ......do. Paper waste or scrap.\n40251 ......do. Chemical or petroleum waste, including spent.\n40261 ......do. Rubber or plastic scrap or waste.\n4029114 ......do. Municipal garbage waste, solid, digested and ground, other than sewage waste or fertilizer.\n4029176 ......do. Automobile shredder residue.\n4111434 ......do. Bags, old, burlap, gunny, istle (ixtle), jute, or sisal, NEC.\n41115 ......do. Articles, used, returned for repair or reconditioning.\n42111 ......do. Nonrevenue movement of containers, bags, barrels, bottles, boxes, crates, cores, drums, kegs, reels, tubes, or carriers, NEC, empty, returning in reverse of route used in loaded movement, and so certified.\n42112 ......do. Nonrevenue movement of shipping devices, consisting of blocking, bolsters, cradles, pallets, racks, skids, etc., empty, returning in reverse of route used in loaded movement, and so certified.\n42311 ......do. Revenue movement of containers, bags, barrels, bottles, boxes, crates, cores, drums, kegs, reels, tubes, or carriers, NEC., empty, returning in reverse of route used in loaded movement and so certified.\nExcluded from this exemption are any movements for which a finding of market dominance has been made. However, this exemption shall not be construed as affecting in any way the existing regulations, agreements, prescriptions, conditions, allowances or levels of compensation regarding the use of equipment, whether shipper or railroad owned or leased, including car hire, per diem and mileage allowances, and also including exemption from the anti-trust laws necessary to negotiate car service regulations or mandatory interchange of equipment or to maintain and execute such agreements. Nor shall this exemption be construed to affect existing Class III railroad “protections” in the case of boxcars. Consistent with the exemptions in § 1039.10 and § 1039.14, this exemption shall not apply to the regulation of demurrage, except the regulation of demurrage related to transportation that is subject to § 1039.13.\n(b) Conditions. Carriers must continue to comply with Board accounting and reporting requirements. All railroad tariffs pertaining to the transportation of these miscellaneous commodities will no longer apply. This exemption shall remain in effect, unless modified or revoked by a subsequent order of this Board.","path":["Title 49—Transportation","Subtitle B—Other Regulations Relating to Transportation","CHAPTER X—SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD","SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS","PART 1039—EXEMPTIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-49.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:34Z","sha256":"29a650fa364c06af8ea9424f480cf9a5170251679132d8dd60593ee75d675577","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/49-cfr-1039.10","next":"us/49-cfr-1039.13"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}