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[CITE: 7USC1761]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                 CHAPTER 43--FOREIGN MARKET DEVELOPMENT
 
     SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS; AGRICULTURAL COUNSELORS AND 
                          AGRICULTURAL ATTACHES
 
Sec. 1761. Foreign markets; collection of information

    For the purpose of encouraging and promoting the marketing of 
agricultural commodities of the United States and assisting American 
farmers, processors, distributors, and exporters to adjust their 
operations and practices to meet world conditions, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall acquire information regarding the competition and 
demand for United States agricultural commodities, the marketing and 
distribution of such commodities in foreign countries and shall be 
responsible for the interpretation and dissemination of such information 
in the United States and shall make investigations abroad regarding the 
factors affecting and influencing the export of United States 
agricultural commodities, and shall conduct abroad any other activities 
including the demonstration of standards of quality for American 
agricultural commodities for which the Department of Agriculture now has 
or in the future may have such standards, as he deems necessary. Nothing 
contained herein shall be construed as prohibiting the Department of 
Agriculture from conducting abroad any activity for which authority now 
exists.

(Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title VI, Sec. 601, 68 Stat. 908; Pub. L. 95-
501, title III, Sec. 301(3), Oct. 21, 1978, 92 Stat. 1688.)


                               Amendments

    1978--Pub. L. 95-501 substituted ``agricultural commodities'' for 
``agricultural products'' in four places and substituted ``such 
commodities'' for ``said products''.


                World Livestock Market Price Information

    Pub. L. 101-624, title XV, Sec. 1545, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3695, 
directed Secretary of Agriculture to develop appropriate methodology for 
determining world price of livestock and livestock products, to gather 
and analyze appropriate price and cost of production information 
concerning such products in foreign countries for purpose of price 
discovery and to aid in sale of livestock and livestock products in 
foreign export markets, and to periodically publish such information, 
prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104-127, title II, Sec. 273, Apr. 4, 1996, 
110 Stat. 976.


              Implementation of 1978 Amendment; Regulations

    Section 601 of Pub. L. 95-501, which required Secretary of 
Agriculture to implement provisions of Pub. L. 95-501 as expeditiously 
as possible, was omitted and a new section 601 of Pub. L. 95-501 added 
as part of the complete revision of Pub. L. 95-501 by Pub. L. 101-624, 
title XV, Sec. 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3668. See chapter 87 
(Sec. 5601 et seq.) of this title.
