Title 7 — Agriculture
Part B · Chapter 35 — Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
§ 1348. Payments in kind to equalize cost of cotton to domestic and foreign users; rules and regulations; termination date; persons eligible; amount; terms and conditions; raw cotton in inventory
Statutory text
In order to maintain and expand domestic consumption of upland cotton produced in the United States and to prevent discrimination against the domestic users of such cotton, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commodity Credit Corporation, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, is authorized and directed for the period beginning with and ending , to make payments through the issuance of payment-in-kind certificates to persons other than producers in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines will eliminate inequities due to differences in the cost of raw cotton between domestic and foreign users of such cotton, including such payments as may be necessary to make raw cotton in inventory on available for consumption at prices consistent with the purposes of this section: Provided, That for the period beginning August 1 of the marketing year for the first crop for which price support is made available under section 1444(b) of this title, and ending , such payments shall be made in an amount which will make upland cotton produced in the United States available for domestic use at a price which is not in excess of the price at which such cotton is made available for export. The Secretary may extend the period for performance of obligations incurred in connection with payments made for the period ending , or may make payments on raw cotton in inventory on , at the rate in effect on such date. No payments shall be made hereunder with respect to 1966 crop cotton.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Agricultural Act of 1964
Pub. L. 88–297 title I § 101 · 78 Stat. 173
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 1348
Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 348, as added Pub. L. 88–297, title I, § 101, Apr. 11, 1964, 78 Stat. 173
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 348, as added Pub. L. 88–297, title I, § 101, Apr. 11, 1964, 78 Stat. 173Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 101. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 52 Stat. 31. 7 USC 1281. is amended by adding the following new section: “Sec. 348. In order to maintain and expand domestic consumption Payment-in-kind certificates, issuance. of upland cotton produced in the United States and to prevent discrimination against, the domestic users of such cotton, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commodity Credit Corporation, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, is authorized and directed for the period beginning with the date of enactment of this section and ending July 31, 1966, to make payments through the issuance of payment-in-kind certificates to persons other than producers in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines will eliminate inequities due to differences in the cost, of raw cotton between domestic and foreign users of such cotton, including such payments as may be necessary to make raw cotton in inventory on the date of enactment of this section available for consumption at prices consistent with the purposes of this section: Provided, That for the period beginning August 1 of the marketing year for the first crop for which price support is made available under section 103(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and ending Post, p. 174. July 31, 1966, such payments shall be made in an amount which will make upland cotton produced in the United States available for domestic use at a price which is not in excess of the price at which such cotton is made available for export.”Food and Agriculture Act of 1965
Pub. L. 89–321 title IV § 401(1) · 79 Stat. 1187
Changed · 7 U.S.C. § 1348
Pub. L. 89–321 authorized Secretary to extend period for performance of obligations incurred in connection with payments made for period ending July 31, 1966, or to make payments in raw cotton in inventory on July 31, 1966
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 89–321 authorized Secretary to extend period for performance of obligations incurred in connection with payments made for period ending July 31, 1966, or to make payments in raw cotton in inventory on July 31, 1966.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) Section 348 of the Act is amended by adding the following new sentences at the end thereof: “The Secretary may extend the period for performance of obligations incurred in connection with payments made for the period ending July 31, 1966, or may make payments on raw cotton in inventory on July 31, 1966, at the rate in effect on such date. No payments shall be made hereunder with respect to 1966 crop cotton.”
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 1348, acts Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 348, 52 Stat. 59; Aug. 29, 1949, ch. 518, § 1, 63 Stat. 675; Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title III, § 311(a), 68 Stat. 904, prohibited agricultural conservation program payments to any farmer who knowingly harvested any basic commodity in excess of his acreage allotment and was repealed by act May 23, 1955, ch. 45, 69 Stat. 65, effective with respect to 1955 and subsequent crops.
Amendments
1965—Pub. L. 89–321 authorized Secretary to extend period for performance of obligations incurred in connection with payments made for period ending , or to make payments in raw cotton in inventory on .
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Inapplicability of Section
Section inapplicable to 2014 through 2018 crops of covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see section 9092(a)(1) of this title.
Section inapplicable to 2008 through 2012 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see section 8782(a)(1) of this title.
Section inapplicable to 2002 through 2007 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see section 7992(a)(1) of this title.
Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2001 crops of loan commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , and ending , see section 7301(a)(1)(A) of this title.
Credits
1938–1965 · 2 acts
- 1938Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 348, as added Pub. L. 88–297, title I, § 101, , 78 Stat. 173
- 1965amended Pub. L. 89–321, title IV, § 401(1), , 79 Stat. 1192.
Show as published
(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 348, as added Pub. L. 88–297, title I, § 101, , 78 Stat. 173; amended Pub. L. 89–321, title IV, § 401(1), , 79 Stat. 1192.)