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 PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1483

DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF MARKETS FOR UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

SEC. 1127. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Secretary") shall formulate and carry out a program under which agricultural commodities and the products thereof acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation are provided to United States exporters, users, and processors and foreign purchasers at no cost to encourage the development, maintenance, and expansion of export markets for United States agricultural commodities and the products thereof, including value-added or high-value agricultural products produced in the United States. (2)(A) The term "agricultural commodities", as used in this section in referring to United States agricultural commodities, includes, but is not limited to— (i) wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, and dairy products produced in the United States; (ii) any other agricultural commodity produced in the United States that is determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be in surplus supply and that can be purchased with funds available under section 32 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes", approved August 24, 1935; and (iii) products of the commodities and products described in clauses (i) and (ii) that are processed in the United States. (B) United States agricultural commodities, as described in clause (ii) of subparagraph (A), may not be purchased with funds available under section 32 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes", approved August 24, 1935, for the sole purpose of use under the program under this section; and such commodities, or products thereof, may not be furnished to a United States user, exporter, processor, or foreign purchaser under the program under this section except by mutual agreement of such user, exporter, processor, or purchaser and the Secretary. (3) In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary may provide such commodities in order to make United States commodities more competitive and shall, to the extent necessary, provide such commodities and products— (A) to counter or offset— (i) the adverse effect on the export of a United States agricultural commodity or the product thereof of a subsidy (as defined in paragraph (4)) or other unfair trade practice of a foreign country that directly or indirectly benefits producers, processors, or exporters of agricultural commodities in such foreign country; (ii) the adverse effects of United States agricultural price support levels that are temporarily above the export prices offered by overseas competitors in export markets; or (iii) fluctuations in the exchange rate of the United States dollar against other major currencies; and (B) in conjunction with an intermediate export credit program conducted by the Commodity Credit Corporation— (i) for the export sale of breeding animals (including, but not limited to, cattle, swine, sheep, and poultry), including

7 USC 1736v.

7 USC 6l2c.

Prohibitions.

Animals.

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