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[CITE: 7USC183]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL DEFINITIONS
 
Sec. 183. When transaction deemed in commerce; ``State'' defined

    For the purpose of this chapter (but not in anywise limiting the 
definition in section 182 of this title) a transaction in respect to any 
article shall be considered to be in commerce if such article is part of 
that current of commerce usual in the livestock and meat-packing 
industries, whereby livestock, meats, meat food products, livestock 
products, dairy products, poultry, poultry products, or eggs, are sent 
from one State with the expectation that they will end their transit, 
after purchase, in another, including, in addition to cases within the 
above general description, all cases where purchase or sale is either 
for shipment to another State, or for slaughter of livestock within the 
State and the shipment outside the State of the products resulting from 
such slaughter. Articles normally in such current of commerce shall not 
be considered out of such current through resort being had to any means 
or device intended to remove transactions in respect thereto from the 
provisions of this chapter. For the purpose of this section the word 
``State'' includes Territory, the District of Columbia, possession of 
the United States, and foreign nation.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title I, Sec. 2(b), 42 Stat. 160; Pub. L. 94-
410, Sec. 3(c), Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1249.)

                          Codification

    Section is composed of subsec. (b) of section 2 of act Aug. 15, 
1921. Subsec. (a) of section 2 is classified to section 182 of this 
title.


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-410 substituted ``livestock'' for ``live stock'' 
and ``live-stock'' wherever appearing.
