7 U.S.C. § 1743: Reduction of set-aside

Summary

Reduce the amount held in the commodity set-aside when the President directs certain ways to get rid of those commodities. That includes donations or sales for overseas or domestic disaster or relief, sales or barter to build new or bigger markets (including trading for strategic materials), gifts to school lunch programs, transfers to the National Defense Stockpile under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.), uses for research or education, and sales for general use at no less than 105 percent of the parity price. The President must set rules to prevent these actions from upsetting normal market sales. If the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) barters for strategic materials under the market-development option, those materials go to the National Defense Stockpile and the CCC is paid back from funds for that Act; the payback is the lower of the domestic market price or the CCC’s investment in the commodity on the date of barter, as set by the Secretary of Agriculture. If the CCC’s actual inventory of a commodity falls below the amount counted in the set-aside because of natural causes or other events beyond the CCC’s control, the set-aside is reduced by that shortfall.

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.

The President shall prescribe such terms and conditions for the disposal of commodities in the commodity set-aside as he determines will provide adequate safeguards against interference with normal marketings of the supplies of such commodities outside the commodity set-aside. Strategic materials acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation under paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be transferred to the National Defense Stockpile established by the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act [50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.], and the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be reimbursed for the value of the commodities bartered for such strategic materials from funds appropriated for purposes of that Act. For the purpose of such reimbursement, the value of any commodity so bartered shall be the lower of the domestic market price or the Commodity Credit Corporation’s investment therein as of the date of such barter, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.

(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.

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.

§1743 Reduction of Set-aside