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 102 STAT. 2264

Philippines. Exports. Tariff Schedules of the U.S.

Imports.

PUBLIC LAW 100-460—OCT. 1, 1988

$900,000,000 in the President's fiscal year 1989 Budget Request) if the aggregate amount of funds and/or commodities under such programs exceeds $770,000,000. SEC. 637. No later than 30 days after enactment of this Act, funds provided in this Act shall be used to implement section 633 of the "Rural Development, Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988", and, within the authorities provided in such section, shall allocate $150,000,000 in prepayments to telephone program borrowers and $350,000,000 in prepa3mients to electric program borrowers. SEC. 638. None of the funds in this Act, or otherwise made available by this Act, shall be used to regulate the order or sequence of advances of funds to a borrower under any combination of approved telephone loans from the Rural Electrification Administration, the Rural Telephone Bank or the Federal Financing Bank. SEC. 639. In fiscal years 1989 and 1990, $20,000,000 of section 32 funds shall be used to purchase sunflower and cottonseed oil, as authorized by law, such purchases to facilitate additional sales of such oils in world markets at competitive prices, so as to compete with other countries: Provided, That these funds shall be in addition to funds made available for this purpose by the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988 (Public Law 100-202). SEC. 640. Within 30 days of the enactment of this section the Secretary of Agriculture may establish and operate a program for fiscal year 1989 as follows: (a) The Secretary shall make available to sugar refiners, operators and processors commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation at such levels as the Secretary determines necessary to permit such refiners, operators or processors to purchase in the amounts specified below raw sugar grown in the Republic of the Philippines and countries designated as beneficiary countries pursuant to section 212 of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 2702) at prices equivalent to the market price for raw cane sugar in the United States on the condition that an equivalent amount of sugar refined in the United States is exported to world markets within 60 days. The Secretary shall make such commodities available on the basis of competitive bids and shall have discretion to accept or reject bids under such criteria as the Secretary determines appropriate. Generic certificates shall be issued in lieu of commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation under the program established under this section. (b) The Secretary shall make available sufficient commodities to permit the importation of no less than 290,000 short tons of sugar, raw value, from the beneficiary countries specified in subsection (a), and no less than 110,000 short tons of sugar, raw value, from the Republic of the Philippines. Sugar imported under the program authorized under this section shall be in addition to any sugar quota level established for the countries specified in subsection (a) pursuant to headnote 3 of schedule 1, part 10, subpart A of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (9 U.S.C. 1202). (c) In order to maximize the number of competing bidders, the Secretary shall, in determining the low bidders in the program established under this section, make appropriate adjustments in bids received from sugar refiners, operators and processors to reflect differing transportation costs based on refinery and factory location.

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