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U.S. Code as of:
01/03/05
Section 2116. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(a) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.
(b) The term "person" means any individual, partnership,
corporation, association, or any other entity.
(c) The term "cotton" means (1) all upland cotton harvested in
the United States, and, except as used in section 2106(e) of this
title, includes cottonseed of such cotton and the products derived
from such cotton and its seed and (2) imports of upland cotton
including the upland cotton content of the products derived from
upland cotton (other than industrial products as defined by the
Secretary). The term "cotton" shall not, however, include any entry
of imported cotton by an importer that has a value or weight less
than any de minimis figure as established in accordance with
regulations issued by the Secretary. Any de minimis figure as
established under this paragraph shall be such as to minimize the
burden in administering the assessment provision but still provide
for the maximum participation of imports of cotton in the
assessment provisions of this chapter.
(d) The term "handler" means any person who handles cotton or
cottonseed or, for the purposes of sections 2102, 2105(c), and 2112
of this title, any person who imports cotton, including de minimis
amounts of cotton described in subsection (c) of this section, in
the manner specified in the order or in the rules and regulations
issued thereunder.
(e) The term "United States" means the 50 States of the United
States of America.
(f) The term "cotton-producing State" means any State in which
the average annual production of cotton during the five years
1960-1964 was twenty thousand bales or more, except that any State
producing cotton whose production during such period was less than
such amount shall under regulations prescribed by the Secretary be
combined with another State or States producing cotton in such
manner that such average annual production of such combination of
States totaled twenty thousand bales or more, and the term
"cotton-producing State" shall include any such combination of
States.
(g) The term "marketing" includes the sale of cotton or the
pledging of cotton to the Commodity Credit Corporation as
collateral for a price support loan.
(h)(1) The term "importer" means any person who enters, or
withdraws from warehouse, cotton for consumption in the customs
territory of the United States.
(2) The term "import" means any such entry.
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