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§1359aa Definitions

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 vii — flexible marketing allotments for sugar › § 1359aa

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines key words about sugar, where it is sold, and what counts as a State or the United States. "Human consumption" means sugar used in food, drinks, or similar products. "Mainland State" is any State that is not an "offshore State." "Offshore State" means a sugarcane-producing State outside the continental United States. "Market" means selling or otherwise putting sugar into U.S. commerce and includes three things: forfeiting sugar under the loan program in section 7272, moving raw cane sugar into the refinery for integrated processors and refiners, and selling sugar for making ethanol or other bioenergy when the Secretary handles the sale under section 8110. Sugar forfeited under the loan program counts as marketed in the crop year the loan was made. Despite section 1301, "State" includes a State, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. "United States" in a geographic sense means all of the States.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1359aa

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In this subpart:
(1)Human consumption
The term “human consumption”, when used in the context of a reference to sugar (whether in the form of sugar, in-process sugar, syrup, molasses, or in some other form) for human consumption, includes sugar for use in human food, beverages, or similar products.
(2)Mainland State
The term “mainland State” means a State other than an offshore State.
(3)Market
(A)In general
The term “market” means to sell or otherwise dispose of in commerce in the United States.
(B)Inclusions
The term “market” includes—
(i)the forfeiture of sugar under the loan program for sugar established under section 7272 of this title;
(ii)with respect to any integrated processor and refiner, the movement of raw cane sugar into the refining process; and
(iii)the sale of sugar for the production of ethanol or other bioenergy product, if the disposition of the sugar is administered by the Secretary under section 8110 of this title.
(C)Marketing year
Forfeited sugar described in subparagraph (B)(i) shall be considered to have been marketed during the crop year for which a loan is made under the loan program described in that subparagraph.
(4)Offshore State
The term “offshore State” means a sugarcane producing State located outside of the continental United States.
(5)State
Notwithstanding section 1301 of this title, the term “State” means—
(A)a State;
(B)the District of Columbia; and
(C)the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(6)United States
The term “United States”, when used in a geographical sense, means all of the States.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

Amendments

to this section. The

Amendments

by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 1359aa, act Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 359a, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title IX, § 902, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3479; amended Pub. L. 102–237, title I, § 111(c), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1830, related to information reporting with respect to sugar and crystalline fructose marketing quotas, prior to the general amendment of this subpart by Pub. L. 107–171. A prior section 359a of act Feb. 16, 1938, was renumbered section 359e and was classified to section 1359a of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 107–171.

Amendments

2008—Pub. L. 110–246, § 1403(a), added pars. (1) and (3) and redesignated former pars. (1) to (4) as (2), (4), (5), and (6), respectively.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 8701 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1359aa

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110