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[CITE: 7USC1585]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER III--FOREIGN COMMERCE
 
Sec. 1585. Certain seeds not adapted for general agricultural 
        use
        
    Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture, after a public hearing, 
determines that seed of alfalfa or red clover from any foreign country 
is not adapted for general agricultural use in the United States, the 
Secretary shall publish the determination and the reasons for the 
determination.

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title III, Sec. 303, as added Pub. L. 103-465, 
title IV, Sec. 441(3), Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4973.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1585, act Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title III, 
Sec. 303, formerly Sec. 305, 53 Stat. 1284; renumbered Sec. 303, Jan. 8, 
1983, Pub. L. 97-439, Sec. 5(b)(4), 96 Stat. 2288, related to 
requirement that certain seeds containing alfalfa and/or red clover be 
stained, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103-465, title IV, Sec. 441(3), Dec. 
8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4973.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective on the date of entry into force of the WTO 
Agreement with respect to the United States (Jan. 1, 1995), except as 
otherwise provided, see section 451 of Pub. L. 103-465, set out as a 
note under section 3601 of Title 19, Customs Duties.
