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[CITE: 7USC1586]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER III--FOREIGN COMMERCE
 
Sec. 1586. Certain acts prohibited

    It shall be unlawful for any person--
    (a) To sell or offer for sale--
        (1) any seed for seeding purposes if imported under this 
    subchapter for other than seeding purposes;
        (2) any screenings of any seeds for seeding purposes if imported 
    under this subchapter for other than seeding purposes; or
        (3) any seed which is prohibited entry under the provisions of 
    this chapter.

    (b) To make any false or misleading representation with respect to 
any seed subject to this subchapter being imported into the United 
States or offered for import: Provided, That this subsection shall not 
be deemed violated by any person if the false or misleading 
representation is the name of a variety indistinguishable in appearance 
from the seed being imported or offered for import and the records and 
other pertinent facts reveal that such person relied in good faith upon 
representations with respect to the name of the indistinguishable 
variety made by the shipper of the seed.

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title III, Sec. 304, formerly Sec. 306, 53 Stat. 
1285; Pub. L. 85-581, Sec. 15, Aug. 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 479; renumbered 
Sec. 304, Pub. L. 97-439, Sec. 5(b)(4), Jan. 8, 1983, 96 Stat. 2288; 
Pub. L. 103-465, title IV, Sec. 441(4), Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4973.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a)(4) to (7). Pub. L. 103-465, Sec. 441(4)(A), struck 
out pars. (4) to (7) which read as follows:
    ``(4) any seed which has been stained to resemble seed stained in 
accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the rules and 
regulations made and promulgated thereunder;
    ``(5) any seed stained under the provisions of this chapter and the 
rules and regulations made and promulgated thereunder, when mixed with 
seed of the same kind produced in the United States;
    ``(6) any seed stained with different colors;
    ``(7) any seed stained under the provisions of this chapter, the 
labeling of which states that such seed is adapted.''
    Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 103-465, Sec. 441(4)(B), (C), 
redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which 
read as follows: ``To change the proportion of seeds stained under the 
provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations made and 
promulgated thereunder or to alter, modify, conceal, or remove in any 
manner or by any means the color of such stained seeds.''
    1958--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 85-581 added subsec. (c).


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-465 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 an Effective Date note under section 3601 of Title 19, 
Customs Duties.


                             Effective Date

    See section 1610 of this title.
