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7 U.S.C. § 1635 — Purpose
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The purpose of this subchapter is to establish a program of information regarding the marketing of cattle, swine, lambs, and products of such livestock that—
(1) provides information that can be readily understood by producers, packers, and other market participants, including information with respect to the pricing, contracting for purchase, and supply and demand conditions for livestock, livestock production, and livestock products;
(2) improves the price and supply reporting services of the Department of Agriculture; and
(3) encourages competition in the marketplace for livestock and livestock products.
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The purpose of this subchapter is to establish a program of information regarding the marketing of cattle, swine, lambs, and products of such livestock that—
(1) provides information that can be readily understood by producers, packers, and other market participants, including information with respect to the pricing, contracting for purchase, and supply and demand conditions for livestock, livestock production, and livestock products;
(2) improves the price and supply reporting services of the Department of Agriculture; and
(3) encourages competition in the marketplace for livestock and livestock products.
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**(a) Export sales reports**
(1) **In general** — All exporters of wheat and wheat flour, feed grains, oil seeds, cotton, pork, beef, and products thereof, and other commodities that the Secretary may designate produced in the United States shall report to the Secretary of Agriculture, on a weekly basis, the following information regarding any contract for export sales entered into or subsequently modified in any manner during the reporting period:
(A) type, class, and quantity of the commodity sought to be exported;
(B) the marketing year of shipment; and
(C) destination, if known.
(2) **Confidentiality and compilation of reports** — Individual reports shall remain confidential but shall be compiled by the Secretary and published in compilation form each week following the week of reporting.
(3) **Immediate reporting** — All exporters of agricultural commodities produced in the United States shall, upon request of the Secretary, immediately report to the Secretary any information with respect to export sales of agricultural commodities and at such times as the Secretary may request. When the Secretary requires that such information be reported by exporters on a daily basis, the information compiled from individual reports shall be made available to the public daily.
(4) **Monthly reporting permitted** — The Secretary may, with respect to any commodity or type or class thereof during any period in which the Secretary determines that—
(A) there is a domestic supply of such commodity substantially in excess of the quantity needed to meet domestic requirements,
(B) total supplies of such commodity in the exporting countries are estimated to be in surplus,
(C) anticipated exports will not result in excessive drain on domestic supplies, and
(D) to re
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It shall be unlawful for any packer or swine contractor with respect to livestock, meats, meat food products, or livestock products in unmanufactured form, or for any live poultry dealer with respect to live poultry, to:
**(a)** Engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device; or
**(b)** Make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in any respect, or subject any particular person or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect; or
**(c)** Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other packer, swine contractor, or any live poultry dealer, or buy or otherwise receive from or for any other packer, swine contractor, or any live poultry dealer, any article for the purpose or with the effect of apportioning the supply between any such persons, if such apportionment has the tendency or effect of restraining commerce or of creating a monopoly; or
**(d)** Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other person, or buy or otherwise receive from or for any other person, any article for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any article, or of restraining commerce; or
**(e)** Engage in any course of business or do any act for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any article, or of restraining commerce; or
**(f)** Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person (1) to apportion territory for carrying on business, or (2) to apportion purchases or sales of any article, or (3) to manipulate or control prices; or
**(g)** Con
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When used in this chapter the term “packer” means any person engaged in the business (a) of buying livestock in commerce for purposes of slaughter, or (b) of manufacturing or preparing meats or meat food products for sale or shipment in commerce, or (c) of marketing meats, meat food products, or livestock products in an unmanufactured form acting as a wholesale broker, dealer, or distributor in commerce.
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**(a) Source** The Secretary shall provide the price support authorized or required herein through the Commodity Credit Corporation and other means available to him.
**(b) Authority of Secretary; factors considered** Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the amounts, terms, and conditions of price support operations and the extent to which such operations are carried out, shall be determined or approved by the Secretary. The following factors shall be taken into consideration in determining, in the case of any commodity for which price support is discretionary, whether a price-support operation shall be undertaken and the level of such support and, in the case of any commodity for which price support is mandatory, the level of support in excess of the minimum level prescribed for such commodity: (1) the supply of the commodity in relation to the demand therefor, (2) the price levels at which other commodities are being supported and, in the case of feed grains, the feed values of such grains in relation to corn, (3) the availability of funds, (4) the perishability of the commodity, (5) the importance of the commodity to agriculture and the national economy, (6) the ability to dispose of stocks acquired through a price-support operation, (7) the need for offsetting temporary losses of export markets, (8) the ability and willingness of producers to keep supplies in line with demand and (9), in the case of upland cotton, changes in the cost of producing such cotton.
**(c) Compliance by producer; program for diverted acres** Compliance by the producer with acreage allotments, production goals and marketing practices (including marketing quotas when authorized by law), prescribed by the Secretary, may be required as a condition of eligibility for price support. In admi
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 416, as added Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(a) [title XI, § 1127(a)], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681, 2681–46, related to mandatory domestic reporting pilot investigation.
#### Termination of Repeal
For termination of repeal by section 942 of Pub. L. 106–78, see Livestock Mandatory Reporting note set out under [section 1635 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1635&num=0&edition=prelim).
#### Termination Date of Repeal
Repeal by Pub. L. 106–78 to terminate Mar. 14, 2025, see section 942 of Pub. L. 106–78, set out in a Livestock Mandatory Reporting note under [section 1635 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1635&num=0&edition=prelim).
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The Congress declares that a sound, efficient, and privately operated system for distributing and marketing agricultural products is essential to a prosperous agriculture and is indispensable to the maintenance of full employment and to the welfare, prosperity, and health of the Nation. It is further declared to be the policy of Congress to promote through research, study, experimentation, and through cooperation among Federal and State agencies, farm organizations, and private industry a scientific approach to the problems of marketing, transportation, and distribution of agricultural products similar to the scientific methods which have been utilized so successfully during the past eighty-four years in connection with the production of agricultural products so that such products capable of being produced in abundance may be marketed in an orderly manner and efficiently distributed. In order to attain these objectives, it is the intent of Congress to provide for (1) continuous research to improve the marketing, handling, storage, processing, transportation, and distribution of agricultural products; (2) cooperation among Federal and State agencies, producers, industry organizations, and others in the development and effectuation of research and marketing programs to improve the distribution processes; (3) an integrated administration of all laws enacted by Congress to aid the distribution of agricultural products through research, market aids and services, and regulatory activities, to the end that marketing methods and facilities may be improved, that distribution costs may be reduced and the price spread between the producer and consumer may be narrowed, that dietary and nutritional standards may be improved, that new and wider markets for American agricultural produ
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**(a) Confidentiality** The Secretary shall make available to the public information, statistics, and documents obtained from, or submitted by, packers, retail entities, and other persons under this subchapter in a manner that ensures that confidentiality is preserved regarding—
(1) the identity of persons, including parties to a contract; and
(2) proprietary business information.
**(b) Disclosure by Federal Government employees**
(1) **In general** — Subject to paragraph (2), no officer, employee, or agent of the United States shall, without the consent of the packer or other person concerned, divulge or make known in any manner, any facts or information regarding the business of the packer or other person that was acquired through reporting required under this subchapter.
(2) **Exceptions** — Information obtained by the Secretary under this subchapter may be disclosed—
(A) to agents or employees of the Department of Agriculture in the course of their official duties under this subchapter;
(B) as directed by the Secretary or the Attorney General, for enforcement purposes; or
(C) by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(3) **Disclosure under Freedom of Information Act** — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no facts or information obtained under this subchapter shall be disclosed in accordance with [section 552 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section552&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Reporting by packers** A packer shall report all information required under this subchapter on an individual lot basis.
**(d) Regional reporting and aggregation** The Secretary shall make information obtained under this subchapter available to the public only in a manner that—
(1) ensures that the information is published
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Except as provided in [section 198b(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section198b/a&num=0&edition=prelim), in this part:
(1) **Market** — The term “market” means the sale or disposition of swine, pork, or pork products in commerce.
(2) **Packer** — The term “packer” has the meaning given the term in [section 1635i of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1635i&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Pork** — The term “pork” means the meat of a porcine animal.
(4) **Pork product** — The term “pork product” means a product or byproduct produced or processed in whole or in part from pork.
(5) **State** — The term “State” means each of the 50 States.
(6) **Swine** — The term “swine” means a porcine animal raised to be a feeder pig, raised for seedstock, or raised for slaughter.
(7) **Type of contract** — The term “type of contract” means the classification of contracts or risk management agreements for the purchase of swine by—
(A) the mechanism used to determine the base price for swine committed to a packer, grouped into practicable classifications by the Secretary (including swine or pork market formula purchases, other market formula purchases, and other purchase arrangements); and
(B) the presence or absence of an accrual account or ledger that must be repaid by the producer or packer that receives the benefit of the contract pricing mechanism in relation to negotiated prices.
(8) **Other terms** — Except as provided in this part, a term has the meaning given the term in section 1635a or 1635i of this title.
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**(a) In general** Subject to the availability of appropriations to carry out this section, the Secretary shall establish and maintain a library or catalog of each type of contract offered by packers to swine producers for the purchase of all or part of the producers’ production of swine (including swine that are purchased or committed for delivery), including all available noncarcass merit premiums.
**(b) Availability** The Secretary shall make available to swine producers and other interested persons information on the types of contracts described in subsection (a), including notice (on a real-time basis if practicable) of the types of contracts that are being offered by each individual packer to, and are open to acceptance by, producers for the purchase of swine.
**(c) Confidentiality** The reporting requirements under subsections (a) and (b) shall be subject to the confidentiality protections provided under [section 1636 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1636&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Information collection**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary shall—
(A) obtain (by a filing or other procedure required of each individual packer) information indicating what types of contracts for the purchase of swine are available from each packer; and
(B) make the information available in a monthly report to swine producers and other interested persons.
(2) **Contracted swine numbers** — Each packer shall provide, and the Secretary shall collect and publish in the monthly report required under paragraph (1)(B), information specifying—
(A) the types of existing contracts for each packer;
(B) the provisions contained in each contract that provide for expansion in the numbers of swine to be delivered under the
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**(a) Definition of packer** In this section, the term “packer” has the meaning given the term in [section 191 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section191&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Report** Not later than 90 days after October 22, 1999, the Comptroller General of the United States shall provide to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report describing the jurisdiction, powers, duties, and authorities of the Secretary that relate to packers and other persons involved in procuring, slaughtering, or processing swine, pork, or pork products that are covered by this Act and other laws, including—
(1) the Federal Trade Commission Act ([15 U.S.C. 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section41&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), especially sections 6, 8, 9, and 10 of that Act ([15 U.S.C. 46](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section46&num=0&edition=prelim), 48, 49, and 50); and
(2) the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ([7 U.S.C. 1621](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1621&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
**(c) Contents** The Comptroller General shall include in the report an analysis of—
(1) burdens on and obstructions to commerce in swine, pork, and pork products by packers, and other persons that enter into arrangements with the packers, that are contrary to, or do not protect, the public interest;
(2) noncompetitive pricing arrangements between or among packers, or other persons involved in the processing, distribution, or sale of pork and pork products, including arrangements provided for in contracts for the pu
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