84-540 - Agricultural Act of 1956
Public Law 84-540, as amended
84-540 - Agricultural Act of 1956
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113–4
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Agricultural Act of 1956
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1956-05-28
84-540 - Agricultural Act of 1956
[Public Law 84-540]
[As Amended Through P.L. 113–4, Effective March 7, 2013]
[Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 84-540. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/]
[Note: While this publication does not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).]

AGREEMENTS LIMITING IMPORTS
Sec. 204.
[7 U.S.C. 1854]
The President may, whenever he determines such action appropriate, negotiate with representatives of foreign governments in an effort to obtain agreements limiting the export from such countries and the importation into the United States of any agricultural commodity or product manufactured therefrom or textiles or textile products, and the President is authorized to issued regulations governing the entry or withdrawal from warehouse of any such commodity, product, textiles, or textile products to carry out any such agreement. In addition, if a multilateral agreement, including but not limited to the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing referred to in section 101(d)(4) of the Uruguay Round Implementation Act, has been or is concluded under the authority of this section among countries accounting for a significant part of world trade in the articles with respect to which the agreement was concluded, the President may also issue, in order to carry out such agreement, regulations governing the entry or withdrawal from warehouse of the same articles which are the products of countries not parties to the agreement, or countries to which the United States does not apply the agreement. Nothing herein shall affect the authority provided under section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (of 1933) as amended.

APPROPRIATION TO SUPPLEMENT SECTION 32 FUNDS
Sec. 205.
[7 U.S.C. 1855]
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, the sum of $500,000,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to further carry out the provisions of section 32, Public Law 320, Seventy-fourth Congress, as amended (7 U.S.C. 612c), subject to all provisions of law relating to the expenditure of funds appropriated by such section, except that up to 50 per centum of such $500,000,000 may be devoted during any fiscal year to any one agricultural commodity or the products thereof.

TRANSFER OF BARTERED MATERIALS TO SUPPLEMENTAL STOCKPILE
Sec. 206.
[7 U.S.C. 1856]
(a)
Strategic and other materials acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation as a result of barter or exchange of agricultural commodities or products, unless acquired for the national stockpile established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98–98h) or for other purposes shall be transferred to the supplemental stockpile established by section 104(b) of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1704); but no strategic or critical material shall be acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation as a result of such barter or exchange, except for such national stockpile, for such supplemental stockpile, for foreign economic or military aid or assistance programs, or for offshore construction programs, or to meet requirements of government agencies.
(b)206–1
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Subsection (b) which provided that strategic materials acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation as a result of barter or exchange of agricultural commodities or products may be entered or withdrawn from warehouse free of duty, was repealed by the Act of May 24, 1962, P.L. 87–456, 76 Stat. 78.
(c)
In order to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for materials transferred to the supplemental stockpile there are hereby authorized to be appropriated amounts equal to the value of any materials so transferred. The value of any such materials for the purpose of this subsection, shall be the lower of the domestic market price or the Commodity Credit Corporation's investment therein as of the date of such transfer, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.

DONATIONS TO PENAL AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Sec. 210.
[7 U.S.C. 1859]
Notwithstanding any other limitations as to the disposal of surplus commodities acquired through price support operations, the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized on such terms and under such regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem in the public interest, and upon application, to donate food commodities acquired through price support operations to Federal penal and correctional institutions, and to State correctional institutions for minors, other than those in which food service is provided for inmates on a fee, contract, or concession basis.