§ 2116. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 7USC2116]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 53--COTTON RESEARCH AND PROMOTION
Sec. 2116. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(a) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture.
(b) The term ``person'' means any individual, partnership,
corporation, association, or any other entity.
(c) The term ``cotton'' means (1) all upland cotton harvested in the
United States, and, except as used in section 2106(e) of this title,
includes cottonseed of such cotton and the products derived from such
cotton and its seed and (2) imports of upland cotton including the
upland cotton content of the products derived from upland cotton (other
than industrial products as defined by the Secretary). The term
``cotton'' shall not, however, include any entry of imported cotton by
an importer that has a value or weight less than any de minimis figure
as established in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary.
Any de minimis figure as established under this paragraph shall be such
as to minimize the burden in administering the assessment provision but
still provide for the maximum participation of imports of cotton in the
assessment provisions of this chapter.
(d) The term ``handler'' means any person who handles cotton or
cottonseed or, for the purposes of sections 2102, 2105(c), and 2112 of
this title, any person who imports cotton, including de minimis amounts
of cotton described in subsection (c) of this section, in the manner
specified in the order or in the rules and regulations issued
thereunder.
(e) The term ``United States'' means the 50 States of the United
States of America.
(f) The term ``cotton-producing State'' means any State in which the
average annual production of cotton during the five years 1960-1964 was
twenty thousand bales or more, except that any State producing cotton
whose production during such period was less than such amount shall
under regulations prescribed by the Secretary be combined with another
State or States producing cotton in such manner that such average annual
production of such combination of States totaled twenty thousand bales
or more, and the term ``cotton-producing State'' shall include any such
combination of States.
(g) The term ``marketing'' includes the sale of cotton or the
pledging of cotton to the Commodity Credit Corporation as collateral for
a price support loan.
(h)(1) The term ``importer'' means any person who enters, or
withdraws from warehouse, cotton for consumption in the customs
territory of the United States.
(2) The term ``import'' means any such entry.
(Pub. L. 89-502, Sec. 17, July 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 286; Pub. L. 101-624,
title XIX, Sec. 1997, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3913.)
Amendments
1990--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1997(1), designated
existing provisions as cl. (1) and added cl. (2).
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1997(2), inserted ``or, for the
purposes of sections 2102, 2105(c), and 2112 of this title, any person
who imports cotton, including de minimis amounts of cotton described in
subsection (c) of this section,'' after ``cottonseed''.
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1997(3), added subsec. (h).
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 2107 of this title.
