PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

People and companies must not send or offer to send apples to other countries unless the apples have a certificate from the Secretary of Agriculture showing they meet the required federal or state quality grade for export, except where this chapter allows otherwise. The Secretary can set other rules the fruit must meet before issuing a certificate and must let interested people review and comment on any proposed export standards or rules, including by public hearing.

Title 7, §581

Agriculture, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

It shall be unlawful for any person to ship or offer for shipment or for any carrier, or any steamship company, or any person to transport or receive for transportation to any foreign destination, except as provided in this chapter, any apples in packages which are not accompanied by a certificate issued under authority of the Secretary of Agriculture showing that such apples are of a Federal or State grade which meets the minimum of quality established by the Secretary for shipment in export. The Secretary is authorized to prescribe, by regulations, the requirements, other than those of grade, which the fruit must meet before certificates are issued. The Secretary shall provide opportunity, by public hearing or otherwise, for interested persons to examine and make recommendation with respect to any standard of export proposed to be established or designated, or regulation prescribed, by the Secretary for the purposes of this chapter.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1999—Pub. L. 106–96 struck out “and/or pears” after “any apples” and “or pears” after “such apples”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Short Title

Act June 10, 1933, ch. 59, § 11, as added by Pub. L. 106–96, § 1(a), Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1321, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Export Apple Act’.”.

§581 Standards of Export; Establishment; Shipping Without Certificate Forbidden; Hearings