49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6) 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)
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), 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), 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, May 18, 1988, as amended at 62 FR 15421, Apr. 1, 1997]