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PUBLIC LAW 87-539-JULY 19, 1962

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Public Law 87-539 AN ACT

To amend the Act relating to the importation of adult honeybees, and to amend certain provisions of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended.

July 19, 1962 [H. R. 8050]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of Honeybees, the Act of August 31, 1922 (42 Stat. 833; 7 U.S.C. 281), is amended importation. to read as follows: "SECTION 1. I n order to prevent the introduction and spread of diseases dangerous to the adult honeybee, the importation into the United States of all honeybees of the genus Apis in the adult stage is hereby prohibited, and all adult honeybees offered for import into the United States shall be destroyed if not immediately exported: Provided, That such adult honeybees may be imported into the United States by the United States Department of Agriculture for experimental or scientific purposes: Provided further, That such adult honeybees may be imported into the United States from countries in which the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine that no diseases dangerous to adult honeybees exist and that adequate precautions have been taken b j such countries to prevent the importation of honeybees from countries where such dangerous diseases exist, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agri<julture." SEC. 2, (a) Section 202(c)(4) of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, Sugar Act of amendment. is amended by inserting " (A) " after " (4) ", and by adding at the end 1948,Stat. 318. 65 Ante, p. 159. thereof the following new subparagraph: " (B) Of the quantity authorized for purchase and importation un- 7 USC 1112. der subparagraph (A), the President is authorized to allocate to countries within the Western Hemisphere, for the six-month period ending December 31, 1962, an amount of sugar, raw value, not exceeding in the aggregate seventy-five thousand short tons, and for the calendar years 1963 and 1964, an amount of sugar, raw value, not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred and fifty thousand short tons." (b) Section 202(e) of such Act, as amended, is amended by adding 70 Stat. 219. at the end thereof the following new sentence: "The provisions of this Ante, p. 159. subsection shall not apply to sugar exported by any foreign country to the United States to fill any allocation made to it under subsection (c)(3)(C)." Ante, p. IS8. Quota deficits, (c) Section 204(a) of such Act, as amended, is amended to read as proration. Ante, p. 1(>0. follows: " (a) The Secretary shall from time to time determine whether, in view of the current inventory of sugar, the estimated production from the acreage of sugarcane or sugarbeets planted, the normal marketings within a calendar year of new-crop sugar and other pertinent factors, any area or country will be unable to market the quota or proration for such area or country. If the Secretary determines that any domestic area or foreign country will be unable to market the quota or proration for such area or country, he shall revise the quota for the Republic of the Philippines by prorating to it an amount of sugar which bears the same ratio to the deficit as the quota for the Republic of the Philippines determined under section 202(b) then in effect bears Ante, p. 157. to the sum of such quota for the Republic of the Philippines and of the prorations to foreign countries named in section 202(c)(3)(A) Ante, p. 158. then in effect; and shall allocate an amount of sugar equal to the remainder of the deficit to foreign countries within the Western Hemisphere named in section 202(c)(3)(A): Provided, That no part of any such deficit shall be prorated or allocated to any country not in

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