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[CITE: 7USC1311]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 35--AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING 
                   QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES
 
                        Part B--Marketing Quotas
 
                  subpart i--marketing quotas--tobacco
 
Sec. 1311. Legislative findings

    (a) The marketing of tobacco constitutes one of the greatest basic 
industries of the United States with ramifying activities which directly 
affect interstate and foreign commerce at every point, and stable 
conditions therein are necessary to the general welfare. Tobacco 
produced for market is sold on a Nation-wide market and, with its 
products, moves almost wholly in interstate and foreign commerce from 
the producer to the ultimate consumer. The farmers producing such 
commodity are subject in their operations to uncontrollable natural 
causes, are widely scattered throughout the Nation, in many cases such 
farmers carry on their farming operations on borrowed money or leased 
lands, and are not so situated as to be able to organize effectively, as 
can labor and industry through unions and corporations enjoying 
Government protection and sanction. For these reasons among others, the 
farmers are unable without Federal assistance to control effectively the 
orderly marketing of such commodity with the result that abnormally 
excessive supplies thereof are produced and dumped indiscriminately on 
the Nation-wide market.
    (b) The disorderly marketing of such abnormally excessive supplies 
affects, burdens, and obstructs interstate and foreign commerce by (1) 
materially affecting the volume of such commodity marketed therein, (2) 
disrupting the orderly marketing of such commodity therein, (3) reducing 
the price for such commodity with consequent injury and destruction of 
interstate and foreign commerce in such commodity, and (4) causing a 
disparity between the prices for such commodity in interstate and 
foreign commerce and industrial products therein, with a consequent 
diminution of the volume of interstate and foreign commerce in 
industrial products.
    (c) Whenever an abnormally excessive supply of tobacco exists, the 
marketing of such commodity by the producers thereof directly and 
substantially affects interstate and foreign commerce in such commodity 
and its products, and the operation of the provisions of this subpart 
becomes necessary and appropriate in order to promote, foster, and 
maintain an orderly flow of such supply in interstate and foreign 
commerce.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, Sec. 311, 52 Stat. 45.)
