To Include Sugar Beets and Sugarcane as Basic Agricultural Commodities Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act: Hearings, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session |
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acreage acres Agricultural Adjustment Act Agricultural Adjustment Administration amendment American farmer American refiners American sugar amount average beet farmers beet growers beet sugar benefit bill BOURG BUNKER cane sugar cents per pound CHAIRMAN committee Congress consumers consumption continental United cost crop Cuba Cuban refined Cuban sugar domestic sugar duty export factories farm February 19 figures Hawaii HOLMES importations increase insular insular areas interests invested irrigated KEARNEY labor long tons Louisiana manufacture MATHERS MEAD ment OVIATT parity percent Philippine Islands plant President processing tax producing areas production proposed Puerto Rico quota raw sugar reduction refined sugar refineries represent ROBERSON Secretary of Agriculture Secretary WALLACE Senator CoSTIGAN Senator GORE Senator HASTINGS Senator KING Senator McADOO Senator VANDENBERG Senator WALSH short tons sirup SNYDER statement sugar beets sugar content sugar industry sugar producers Sugar Refining sugarcane Tariff Commission tion total sugar trade Washington
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Page 164 - To establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities, and such marketing conditions therefor, as will reestablish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period.
Page 4 - The several circuit courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act; and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Page 147 - That upon the reimportation of articles once exported, of the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, upon which no internal tax has been assessed or paid, or upon which such tax has been paid and refunded by allowance or drawback, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty equal to the tax imposed by the internalrevenue laws upon such articles...
Page 66 - Elsewhere I have discussed the question of reciprocity. In the case of Cuba, however, there are weighty reasons of morality and of national interest why the policy should be held to have a peculiar application, and I most earnestly ask your attention to the wisdom, indeed to the vital need, of providing for a substantial reduction in the tariff duties on Cuban imports into the United States.
Page 5 - To provide for reduction in the acreage or reduction in the production for market, or both, of any basic agricultural commodity, through agreements with producers or by other voluntary methods, and to provide for rental or benefit payments in connection therewith or upon that part of the production of any basic agricultural commodity...
Page 4 - The several district courts of the United States are hereby vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce, and to prevent and restrain any person from violating, the provisions of this section, or of any order, regulation, agreement, or license heretofore or hereafter made or issued pursuant to this title, in any proceeding now pending or hereafter brought in said courts.
Page 5 - ... shall not be covered into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States...
Page 8 - Congress to establish in subsection (1) of this section by gradual correction of the current level at as rapid a rate as the Secretary of Agriculture deems to be in the public interest and feasible in view of the current consumptive demand in domestic and foreign markets...
Page 4 - SEC. 8a. (1) Having due regard to the welfare of domestic producers and to the protection of domestic consumers and to a just relation between the prices received by domestic producers and the prices paid by domestic consumers, the Secretary of Agriculture may, in order to effectuate the declared policy of this Act, from time to time, by orders or regulations — "(A...
Page 4 - States a sum equal to three times the current market value of such excess, which forfeiture shall be recoverable in a civil suit brought in the name of the United States.