§2116 Definitions

Summary

Defines key words used in this chapter. Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture. Person means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity. United States means the 50 States. Importer means anyone who brings cotton into U.S. customs territory or withdraws it from warehouse for use, and import means that entry. Handler means anyone who handles cotton or cottonseed, and for some rules it also means anyone who imports cotton (including small import amounts) as the order or rules describe. Marketing includes selling cotton or using it as collateral with the Commodity Credit Corporation for a price support loan. Cotton means upland cotton grown in the U.S., its seed, and products made from them, plus imports of upland cotton and the upland content of products (except certain industrial products); very small import entries below a limit set by the Secretary are excluded, and that limit must reduce paperwork while including as many imports as possible. Cotton-producing State means a State whose average annual cotton production in 1960–1964 was twenty thousand bales or more; States with less can be combined under Secretary rules so the total meets twenty thousand bales, and the term includes such combinations and, starting with the 2008 crop, Kansas, Virginia, and Florida.