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 76 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 87-535-JULY 13, 1962

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"(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of this "« P- I69subsection, whenever the United States is not in diplomatic relations with any country named in paragraph (3) of this subsection and during such period after resumption of diplomatic relations with such country as the Secretary determines is required to permit an orderly adjustment in the channels of commerce for sugar, the proration or allocation provided for in paragraph (3) of this subsection shall not be made to such country, and a quantity of sugar not to exceed an amount equal to the proration or allocation which would have been made but for the provisions of this paragraph, may be authorized for purchase and importation from foreign countries, except that all or any part of such quantity need not be purchased from any country with which the United States is not in diplomatic relations, or from any country designated by the President whenever he finds and proclaims that such action is required in the national interest. In authorizing the purchase and importation of sugar from foreign countries under this paragraph, special consideration shall be given to countries of the Western Hemisphere and to those countries purchasing United States agricultural commodities. "(5) Sugar authorized for purchase pursuant to paragraph (4) of this subsection shall be raw sugar, except that if the Secretary determines that the total quantity is not reasonably available as raw sugar from the countries either named or determined by the Secretary under paragraph (4) of this subsection, he may authorize for purchase for direct consumption from such countries such part of such quantity of sugar as he determines may be required to meet the requirements of consumers in the United States. "(6) Sugar shall not be authorized for purchase pursuant to paragraph (4) of this subsection from any foreign country which imports sugar unless, in the preceding and current calendar year, its aggregate exports of sugar to countries other than the United States equal or exceed its aggregate imports of sugar. " (d) Whenever in any year any foreign country with a quota or proration thereof of more than ten thousand short tons, raw value, fails to fill such quota or proration by more than ten per centum and at a n j time during such year the world price of sugar exceeds the domestic price, the quota or proration thereof for such country for subsequent years shall oe reduced by an amount equal to the amount by which such country failed to fill its quota or proration thereof, unless the Secretary finds that such failure was due to crop disaster or force majeure or finds that such reduction would be contrary to the objectives of this Act. Any reduction hereunder shall be prorated in the same manner as deficits are prorated under section 204. poat. p. leo. "(e) If a foreign country imports sugar, it may not export sugar Post, p. i69. to the United States to fill its quota or proration thereof for any year unless, in both the preceding and current calendar years, its aggregate exports of sugar to countries other than the United States equal or exceed its aggregate imports of sugar. If sugar is exported to the United States from any foreign country in any year in violation of this subsection (e), the quota or proration thereof for such foreign country

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