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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§1341 Legislative Findings

Title 7 › Chapter 35— AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938 › Subchapter II— LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES › Part B— Marketing Quotas › Subpart iv— marketing quotas—cotton › § 1341

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Create a cooperative program to help cotton growers avoid producing and selling too much cotton into markets between states and with other countries. American cotton is used for clothing and industry here and abroad, and most of it moves across state lines or to other countries for processing. When too much cotton floods those markets, prices become uneven and trade is hurt. Farmers cannot stop big swings in supply, prevent dumping on national and world markets, or keep steady reserve stocks without federal help. The program must protect trade, keep enough cotton for domestic use and exports in bad years and good years, and prevent wasting soil by growing too much. A cooperative plan for producers is needed to keep supply steady and markets orderly.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1341

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American cotton is a basic source of clothing and industrial products used by every person in the United States and by substantial numbers of people in foreign countries. American cotton is sold on a world-wide market and moves from the places of production almost entirely in interstate and foreign commerce to processing establishments located throughout the world at places outside the State where the cotton is produced. Fluctuations in supplies of cotton and the marketing of excessive supplies of cotton in interstate and foreign commerce disrupt the orderly marketing of cotton in such commerce with consequent injury to and destruction of such commerce. Excessive supplies of cotton directly and materially affect the volume of cotton moving in interstate and foreign commerce and cause disparity in prices of cotton and industrial products moving in interstate and foreign commerce with consequent diminution of the volume of such commerce in industrial products. The conditions affecting the production and marketing of cotton are such that, without Federal assistance, farmers, individually or in cooperation, cannot effectively prevent the recurrence of excessive supplies of cotton and fluctuations in supplies, cannot prevent indiscriminate dumping of excessive supplies on the Nation-wide and foreign markets, cannot maintain normal carry-overs of cotton, and cannot provide for the orderly marketing of cotton in interstate and foreign commerce. It is in the interest of the general welfare that interstate and foreign commerce in cotton be protected from the burdens caused by the marketing of excessive supplies of cotton in such commerce, that a supply of cotton be maintained which is adequate to meet domestic consumption and export requirements in years of drought, flood, and other adverse conditions as well as in years of plenty, and that the soil resources of the Nation be not wasted in the production of excessive supplies of cotton. The provisions of this subpart affording a cooperative plan to cotton producers are necessary and appropriate to prevent the burdens on interstate and foreign commerce caused by the marketing in such commerce of excessive supplies, and to promote, foster, and maintain an orderly flow of an adequate supply of cotton in such commerce.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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 Feb. 7, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2018, 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
June 18, 2008, through Dec. 31, 2012, 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
May 13, 2002, through Dec. 31, 2007, 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 Apr. 4, 1996, and ending Dec. 31, 2002, see section 7301(a)(1)(A) of this title. 1947 Marketing Quotas and Acreage AllotmentsJoint Res.
July 24, 1946, ch. 616, 60 Stat. 662, suspended marketing quotas and acreage allotments for 1947 in view of the critical shortage of fats and oils and protein feeds.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1341

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60