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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§183 When Transaction Deemed in Commerce; “state” Defined

Title 7 › Chapter 9— PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS › Subchapter I— GENERAL DEFINITIONS › § 183

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Treats a sale or shipment of livestock, meat, dairy, poultry, eggs, and related products as interstate commerce when those goods move in the normal flow of the livestock and meat-packing trade from one State with the expectation they will end up in another. Sales for shipment to another State, or slaughter in one State with the products shipped out, are included. Trying to avoid the rule by using tricks or paperwork won’t remove such transactions from this commerce flow. For this rule, State means Territory, the District of Columbia, a U.S. possession, or a foreign nation. It does not limit the definition in section 182.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §183

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

For the purpose of this chapter (but not in anywise limiting the definition in section 182 of this title) a transaction in respect to any article shall be considered to be in commerce if such article is part of that current of commerce usual in the livestock and meat-packing industries, whereby livestock, meats, meat food products, livestock products, dairy products, poultry, poultry products, or eggs, are sent from one State with the expectation that they will end their transit, after purchase, in another, including, in addition to cases within the above general description, all cases where purchase or sale is either for shipment to another State, or for slaughter of livestock within the State and the shipment outside the State of the products resulting from such slaughter. Articles normally in such current of commerce shall not be considered out of such current through resort being had to any means or device intended to remove transactions in respect thereto from the provisions of this chapter. For the purpose of this section the word “State” includes Territory, the District of Columbia, possession of the United States, and foreign nation.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section is composed of subsec. (b) of section 2 of act Aug. 15, 1921. Subsec. (a) of section 2 is classified to section 182 of this title.

Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–410 substituted “livestock” for “live stock” and “live-stock” wherever appearing.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 183

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60