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§ 1359bb. Flexible marketing allotments for sugar
(a) Sugar estimates
(1) In general
Not later than August 1 before the beginning of each of the 2008 through 2023 crop years for sugarcane and sugar beets, the Secretary shall estimate—
(A) the quantity of sugar that will be subject to human consumption in the United States during the crop year;
(B) the quantity of sugar that would provide for reasonable carryover stocks;
(C) the quantity of sugar that will be available from carry-in stocks for human consumption in the United States during the crop year;
(D) the quantity of sugar that will be available from the domestic processing of sugarcane, sugar beets, and in-process beet sugar; and
(E) the quantity of sugars, syrups, and molasses that will be imported for human consumption or to be used for the extraction of sugar for human consumption in the United States during the crop year, whether the articles are under a tariff-rate quota or are in excess or outside of a tariff-rate quota.
(2) Exclusion
(3) Reestimates
(b) Sugar allotments
(1) Establishment
By the beginning of each crop year, the Secretary shall establish for that crop year appropriate allotments under section 1359cc of this title for the marketing by processors of sugar processed from sugar cane or sugar beets or in-process beet sugar (whether the sugar beets or in-process beet sugar was produced domestically or imported) at a level that is—
(A) sufficient to maintain raw and refined sugar prices above forfeiture levels so that there will be no forfeitures of sugar to the Commodity Credit Corporation under the loan program for sugar established under section 7272 of this title; but
(B) not less than 85 percent of the estimated quantity of sugar for domestic human consumption for the crop year.
(2) Products
(c) Coverage of allotments
(1) In general
(2) Exceptions
Consistent with the administration of marketing allotments for each of the 2002 through 2007 crop years, the marketing allotments shall not apply to sugar sold—
(A) to facilitate the exportation of the sugar to a foreign country, except that the exports of sugar shall not be eligible to receive credits under reexport programs for refined sugar or sugar containing products administered by the Secretary;
(B) to enable another processor to fulfill an allocation established for that processor; or
(C) for uses other than domestic human consumption, except for the sale of sugar for the production of ethanol or other bioenergy if the disposition of the sugar is administered by the Secretary under section 8110 of this title.
(3) Requirement
The sale of sugar described in paragraph (2)(B) shall be—
(A) made prior to May 1; and
(B) reported to the Secretary.
(d) Prohibitions
(1) In general
During all or part of any crop year for which marketing allotments have been established, no processor of sugar beets or sugarcane shall market for domestic human consumption a quantity of sugar in excess of the allocation established for the processor, except—
(A) to enable another processor to fulfill an allocation established for that other processor; or
(B) to facilitate the exportation of the sugar.
(2) Civil penalty
(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 359b, as added Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1403, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 188; amended Pub. L. 110–234, title I, § 1403(b), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 982; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title I, § 1403(b), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1710; Pub. L. 113–79, title I, § 1301(b)(1), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 688; Pub. L. 115–334, title I, § 1301(b)(1), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4511.)