Volume 49 · 1539
Public Law 74–612
To modify and extend the Act entitled “An Act to include sugar beets and sugarcane as basic agricultural commodities under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes”, approved May 9, 1934, as amended, and for other purposes.
Approved June 19, 1936
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To modify and extend the Act entitled “An Act to include sugar beets and sugarcane as basic agricultural commodities under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes”, approved May 9, 1934, as amended, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That under the
Agricultural Adjustment Act amendment.
Sugar beets and sugarcane as basic agricultural commodities.
Vol. 48, p. 670.
Provisions continued until 1938 with designated modifications.
Act entitled “An Act to include sugar beets and sugarcane as basic agricultural commodities under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes”, approved May 9, 1934, as amended, no further processing, compensating, or floor-stocks tax shall be levied or collected respecting sugar beets or sugarcane or the products thereof as defined by such Act as amended nor shall any contract be entered into under the provisions of such Act, as amended, with the producers of sugar beets or sugarcane, but in all other respects such amendatory Act shall be and remain in force and effect until December 31, 1937, and the quotas established and allotments
Quotas and allotments ratified.
heretofore made by the Secretary of Agriculture are hereby ratified.
Sec. 2.
In order to regulate commerce with Cuba and other foreign
Quotas for Cuba and other foreign countries, etc., calendar years 1936 and 1937.
countries, among the several States, with the Territories and possessions of the United States, and the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands, with respect to sugar, the quotas for the respective sugar-producing areas shall be the same (subject to modification or adjustment by the Secretary of Agriculture under conditions set out in such Act) for the calendar years 1936 and 1937 as those initially established by the Secretary of Agriculture for the calendar year 1936: Provided, That for the calendar year 1937 there shall be
Provisos.
Allotment to continental United States.
allotted to continental United States not less than 30 per centum of any amount of consumption requirements therefor above six million four hundred and fifty-two thousand short tons, raw value: Provided further, That any sugar-marketing quota may be allotted
Quotas on basis of prior allotments, etc., permitted.
by the Secretary of Agriculture, in order to prevent disorderly marketing or importation of sugar, on the basis of prior allotments under such Act, changes in marketing since the first such allotment, marketings during the calendar year 1935, and ability to perform.
Approved, June 19, 1936.