§ 713a-13. — Policies and procedures for minimum acquisition of stocks by Commodity Credit Corporation, encouragement of marketing through private trade channels and procurement of maximum returns in marketplace for producers and Corporation.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC713a-13]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 15--ECONOMIC RECOVERY
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
Sec. 713a-13. Policies and procedures for minimum acquisition of
stocks by Commodity Credit Corporation, encouragement of
marketing through private trade channels and procurement of
maximum returns in marketplace for producers and Corporation
Congress hereby reconfirms its long-standing policy of favoring the
use by governmental agencies of the usual and customary channels,
facilities, and arrangements of trade and commerce, and directs the
Secretary of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation to the
maximum extent practicable to adopt policies and procedures designed to
minimize the acquisition of stocks by the Commodity Credit Corporation,
to encourage orderly marketing of farm commodities through private
competitive trade channels, both cooperative and noncooperative, and to
obtain maximum returns in the marketplace for producers and for the
Commodity Credit Corporation.
(Pub. L. 87-703, title IV, Sec. 402, Sept. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 632.)
