Volume 76 · 169
Public Law 87–539
To amend the Act relating to the importation of adult honeybees, and to amend certain provisions of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended.
Approved July 19, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act relating to the importation of adult honeybees, and to amend certain provisions of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of
Honeybees, Importation.
the Act of August 31, 1922 (42 Stat. 833; 7 U.S.C. 281), is amended to read as follows:
“Section 1.
In order to prevent the introduction and spread of diseases dangerous to the adult honeybee, the importation into the United States of all honeybees of the genus Apis in the. adult stage is hereby prohibited, and all adult honeybees offered for import into the United States shall be destroyed if not immediately exported: Provided, That such adult honeybees may be imported into the United States by the United States Department of Agriculture for experimental or scientific purposes: Provided further, That such adult honeybees may be imported into the United States from countries in which the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine that no diseases dangerous to adult honeybees exist and that adequate precautions have been taken by such countries to prevent the importation of honeybees from countries where such dangerous diseases exist, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture.”
Sec. 2.
Section 202(c)(4) of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended,
Sugar Act of 1948, amendment.
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is amended by inserting “(A)” after “(4)”, and by adding at the end thereof the following new subparagraph:
“(B) Of the quantity authorized for purchase and importation under subparagraph (A), the President is authorized to allocate to countries within the Western Hemisphere, for the six-month period ending December 31, 1962, an amount of sugar, raw value, not exceeding in the aggregate seventy-five thousand snort tons, and for the calendar years 1963 and 1964, an amount of sugar, raw value, not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred and fifty thousand short tons.”
Section 202(e) of such Act, as amended, is amended by adding
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at the end thereof the following new sentence: “The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to sugar exported by any foreign country to the United States to nil any allocation made to it under subsection (c)(3)(C).”
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Quota deficits, proration.
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Section 204(a) of such Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
“(a) The Secretary shall from time to time determine whether, in view of the current inventory of sugar, the estimated production from the acreage of sugarcane or sugarbeets planted, the normal marketings within a calendar year of new-crop sugar and other pertinent factors, any area or country will be unable to market the quota or proration for such area or country. If the Secretary determines that any domestic area or foreign country will be unable to market the quota or proration for such area or country, he shall revise the quota for the Republic of the Philippines by prorating to it an amount of sugar which bears the same ratio to the deficit as the quota for the Republic of the Philippines determined under section 202(b) then in effect bears
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to the sum of such quota for the Republic of the Philippines and of the prorations to foreign countries named in section 202(c)(3)(A)
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then in effect; and shall allocate an amount of sugar equal to the remainder of the deficit to foreign countries within the Western Hemisphere named in section 202(c)(3)(A): Provided, That no part of any such deficit shall be prorated or allocated to any country not in diplomatic relations with the United States. If the Secretary determines that the Republic of the Philippines will be unable to fill its share of any deficit determined under this subsection, he shall allocate such unfilled amount to foreign countries within the Western Hemisphere
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named in section 202(c)(3)(A): Provided, That no such allocation shall be made to any foreign country not in diplomatic relations with the United States. In making allocations to foreign countries within the Western Hemisphere under this subsection, special consideration shall be given to those countries purchasing United States agricultural commodities. If the Secretary determines that neither the Republic of the Philippines nor the countries within the Western Hemisphere named in section 202(c)(3)(A) can fill all of any such
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deficit whenever the provisions of section 202(c)(4) apply, he shall add such unfilled amount to the quantity of sugar which may be purchased pursuant to section 202(c)(4), and whenever section 202(c)(4) does not apply he shall apportion such unfilled amount on such basis and to such foreign countries in diplomatic relations with the United States as he determines is required to fill such deficit.”
Section 207(e)(2) of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any allocation made to a foreign country
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under section 202(c)(3)(C).
Section 213 of such Act, as amended, is amended—
by striking out “(4)” each place it appears in subsections (a) and (b) thereof and inserting in lieu thereof “(4)(A) ”;
by striking out “paragraph (3) of section 202(c)” in the first sentence of subsection (c) thereof and inserting in lieu thereof “paragraphs (3) and (4)(B) of section 202(c)”; and
by striking out “(4)” each place it appears in the first sentence of subsection (c) thereof and inserting in lieu thereof “(4)(A)”.
The amendments made by this section shall be effective as if
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they were enacted as a part of H.R. 12154 entitled “An Act to amend and extend the provisions of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended”, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session.
Approved July 19, 1962.