Title 7AgricultureRelease 119-73

§1743 Reduction of set-aside

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 42— - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY SET-ASIDE › § 1743

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The amount of commodity put into the set-aside must be cut when the President orders those commodities used or sent away in certain ways. That covers seven kinds of disposals: aid or sales abroad under the limits of subchapter III of chapter 41; sales or barter to build new or bigger markets (including for strategic materials) under subchapter II of chapter 41; donations to school lunch programs; transfers to the National Defense Stockpile (under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act) without repayment; donations or sales for research, experiments, or education; donations or sales for disaster relief in the United States or to meet a national emergency the President declares; and sales for general use at no less than 105 percent of the parity price (and for products, a price reflecting 105 percent of parity). If the Commodity Credit Corporation’s physical inventory of a commodity falls below the amount charged to the set-aside because of natural causes or other events beyond the Corporation’s control, the set-aside amount must be lowered by that shortfall.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1743

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(a)Such commodity set-aside shall be reduced by disposals made in accordance with the directions of the President as follows:
(1)Donation, sale, or other disposition for disaster or other relief purposes outside the United States pursuant to and subject to the limitations of subchapter III of chapter 41 of this title;
(2)Sale or barter (including barter for strategic materials) to develop new or expanded markets for American agricultural commodities, including but not limited to disposition pursuant to and subject to the limitations of subchapter II of chapter 41 of this title;
(3)Donation to school-lunch programs;
(4)Transfer to the National Defense Stockpile established by the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.), without reimbursement from funds appropriated for the purposes of that Act;
(5)Donation, sale, or other disposition for research, experimental, or educational purposes;
(6)Donation, sale, or other disposition for disaster relief purposes in the United States or to meet any national emergency declared by the President; and
(7)Sale for unrestricted use to meet a need for increased supplies at not less than 105 per centum of the parity price in the case of agricultural commodities and a price reflecting 105 per centum of the parity price of the agricultural commodity in the case of products of agricultural commodities.
(b)The quantity of any commodity in the commodity set-aside shall be reduced to the extent that the Commodity Credit Corporation inventory of such commodity is reduced, by natural or other cause beyond the control of the Corporation, below the quantity then charged to the commodity set-aside.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act
June 7, 1939, ch. 190, as revised generally by Pub. L. 96–41, § 2,
July 30, 1979, 93 Stat. 319, which is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 98 et seq.) of chapter 5 of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 98 of Title 50 and Tables.

Amendments

1979—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–41 substituted “the National Defense Stockpile established by the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.)” for “the national stockpile established pursuant to the Act of
June 7, 1939, as amended,” in par. (4), and in the provisions following par. (7) substituted “the National Defense Stockpile established by the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act” for “the national stockpile established pursuant to the Act of
June 7, 1939, as amended,” and “funds appropriated for the purposes of that Act” for “funds appropriated pursuant to section 8 of such Act of
June 7, 1939”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Technical change in meaning of reference in original act which appears in subsec. (a)(1) as reference to subchapter III of chapter 41 of this title and in subsec. (a)(2) as reference to subchapter II of chapter 41 of this title was directed by section 3001(c) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 1691 of this title.

Executive Documents

Executive Order No. 10601 Ex. Ord. No. 10601, Mar. 21, 1955, 20 F.R. 1761, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 10773,
July 1, 1958, 23 F.R. 5061; Ex. Ord. No. 10782, Sept. 6, 1958, 23 F.R. 6971; Ex. Ord. No. 11051, Sept. 27, 1962, 27 F.R. 9683; Ex. Ord. No. 12148,
July 20, 1979, 44 F.R. 43239, which provided for administration of the commodity set-aside program, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 12553, Feb. 25, 1986, 51 F.R. 7237.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1743

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73