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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 325-JUNE 30, 1944 standing any other provision of this Act or of any existing law, such commodity may be bought or sold, or stored or used, and such subsidy payments to domestic producers thereof may be paid, only by corpo- rations created or organized pursuant to such section 5d; except that in the case of the sale of any commodity by any such corporation, the sale price therefor shall not exceed any maximum price estab- lished pursuant to subsection (a) of this section which is applicable to such commodity at the time of sale or delivery, but such sale price may be below such maximum price or below the purchase price of such commodity, and the Administrator may make recommenda- tions with respect to the buying or selling, or storage or use, of any such commodity: Provided, however, That, with the exception of any commodity which prior to the effective date of this amendatory proviso has been defined as a strategic or critical material pursuant to section 5d of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, no agricultural commodity or commodity manufactured or processed in whole or substantial part from any agricultural com- modity intended to be used as food for human consumption, shall, for the purposes of this subsection, be defined as a strategic or critical material pursuant to the provisions of said section 5d of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation Act, as amended. In any case in which a commodity is domestically produced, the powers granted to the Administrator by this subsection shall be exercised with respect to importations of such commodity only to the extent that, in the judgment of the Administrator, the domestic production of the com- modity is not sufficient to satisfy the demand therefor. Nothing in this section shall be construed to modify, suspend, amend, or super- sede any provision of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and nothing in this section, or in any existing law, shall be construed to authorize any sale or other disposition of any agricultural commodity contrary to the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, or to authorize the Administrator to prohibit trading in any agricultural commodity for future delivery if such trading is subject to the provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended. "After June 30, 1945, neither the Price Administrator nor the Reconstruction Finance Corporation nor any other Government cor- poration shall make any subsidy payments, or buy any commodities for the purpose of selling them at a loss and thereby subsidizing directly or indirectly the sale of commodities, unless the money required for such subsidies, or sale at a loss, has been appropriated by Congress for such purpose; and appropriations for such purpose are hereby authorized to be made. "(f) No power conferred by this section shall be construed to authorize any action contrary to the provisions and purposes of sec- tion 3, and no agricultural commodity shall be sold within the United States pursuant to the provisions of this section by any governmental agency at a price below the price limitations imposed by section 3 (a) of this Act with respect to such commodity. "(g) Regulations, orders, and requirements under this Act may contain such provisions as the Administrator deems necessary to pre- vent the circumvention or evasion thereof. "(h) The powers granted in this section shall not be used or made to operate to compel changes in the business practices, cost practices or methods, or means or aids to distribution, established in-any industry, or changes in established rental practices, except where such action is affirmatively found by the Administrator to be necessary to prevent circumvention or evasion of any regulation, order, price schedule, or requirement under this Act. 635 Agricultural com- modities not defined as strategic and critical material. Jurisdiction over im- portations. Designated laws not affected. 46 Stat. 590. 19U. . c. §§1001- 1654; Supp. III, ch. 4. Ante, p. 269; post, p. 722. 52 Stat. 31 . 7U.S.C.§§1281- 1407; Supp. III,ch. 35 . Ante, p. 136. 49 Stat. 1491. 7U.S.C.ch.1. Subsidy payments after June 30, 1945. Appropriations au. thorized. Price limitation with regard to agricultural commodities. 56 Stat. 27. 50 U. S. C., Supp. In, app. §903 (a). Prevention of eva- sions. Changes in business practices, etc.

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