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U.S. Code as of:
01/03/05
Section 7101. Findings and declaration of policy
(a) Findings
Congress finds that -
(1) sheep and sheep products are important goods;
(2) the production of sheep and sheep products play a
significant role in the economy of the United States in that
sheep and sheep products are produced throughout the United
States and used by millions of people throughout the United
States and foreign countries;
(3) sheep and sheep products must be high quality, readily
available, handled properly, and marketed efficiently to ensure
that consumers have an adequate supply of sheep products;
(4) the maintenance and expansion of existing markets and
development of new markets for sheep and sheep products are vital
to the welfare of sheep producers and persons concerned with
marketing, using, and producing sheep and sheep products, as well
as to the general economy of the United States, and necessary to
ensure the ready availability and efficient marketing of sheep
and sheep products;
(5) there exist established State organizations conducting
sheep and sheep product promotion, research, and industry and
consumer education programs that are invaluable to the efforts of
promoting the consumption of sheep and sheep products;
(6) the cooperative development, financing, and implementation
of a coordinated national program of sheep and sheep product
promotion, research, consumer information, education, and
industry information are necessary to maintain and expand
existing markets and develop new markets for sheep and sheep
products; and
(7) sheep and sheep products move in interstate and foreign
commerce, and sheep and sheep products that do not move in such
channels of commerce directly burden or affect interstate
commerce in sheep and sheep products.
(b) Policy
It is the policy of Congress that it is in the public interest to
authorize the establishment, through the exercise of the powers
provided in this chapter, of an orderly procedure for developing,
financing (through adequate assessments on sheep and sheep products
produced or imported into the United States), and carrying out an
effective, continuous, coordinated program of promotion, research,
consumer information, education, and industry information designed
to -
(1) strengthen the position of the sheep and sheep product
industry in the marketplace;
(2) maintain and expand existing domestic and foreign markets
and uses for sheep and sheep products; and
(3) develop new markets and uses for sheep and sheep products.
(c) Construction
Nothing in this chapter provides for the control of production,
or otherwise limits, the right of any person to produce sheep or
sheep products.
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