Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/7/944.106
Timestamp: 2017-07-28 16:53:51
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 944', 'art 944', '§ 905', 'art 51', 'art 905', '§ 944']

7 CFR 944.106 - Grapefruit import regulation. | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
CFR › Title 7 › Subtitle B › Chapter IX › Part 944 › Section 944.106 7 CFR 944.106 - Grapefruit import regulation.
(a) Pursuant to Section 8e [ 7 U.S.C. Section 608e-1] of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended [ 7 U.S.C. 601- 674], and Part 944 - Fruits; Import Regulations, the importation into the United States of any grapefruit is prohibited unless such grapefruit meet the following minimum grade and size requirements for each specified grapefruit classification:
Seedless, except red
On and after 9/01/94
(c) Terms and tolerances pertaining to grade and size requirements, which are defined in the United States Standards for Grades of Florida Grapefruit ( 7 CFR 51.750- 51.784, and in Marketing Order No. 905 ( 7 CFR §§ 905.18 and 905.306), shall be applicable herein. (d) The Federal or Federal-State Inspection Service, Fruit and Vegetable Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, United States Department of Agriculture, is designated as the governmental inspection service for certifying the grade, size, quality, and maturity of grapefruit imported into the United States. Inspection by the Federal or Federal-State Inspection Service with evidence thereof in the form of an official inspection certificate, issued by the respective service, applicable to the particular shipment of grapefruit, is required on all such imports. The inspection and certification services will be available upon application in accordance with the Regulations Governing Inspection, Certification and Standards of Fresh Fruits, Vegetables, and Other Products ( 7 CFR part 51), and in accordance with the regulation designating inspection services and procedure for obtaining inspection and certification ( 7 CFR 944.400).
(h) The Secretary has determined that grapefruit imported into the United States are in most direct competition with grapefruit grown in Florida regulated under Marketing Order No. 905 ( 7 CFR part 905).
(i) The grade, size, quality, and maturity requirements of this section shall not be applicable to grapefruit imported for consumption by charitable institutions, distribution by relief agencies, animal feed, or commercial processing into canned or frozen products or into a beverage base, but shall be subject to the safeguard provisions contained in § 944.350.
[ 58 FR 39430, July 23, 1993, as amended at 58 FR 59934, Nov. 12, 1993; 58 FR 69185, Dec. 30, 1993; 59 FR 56380, Nov. 14, 1994; 60 FR 58499, Nov. 28, 1995; 61 FR 64253, Dec. 4, 1996; 63 FR 62923, Nov. 10, 1998; 64 FR 58762, Nov. 1, 1999; 66 FR 229, Jan. 3, 2001; 68 FR 53024, Sept. 10, 2003; 74 FR 15644, Apr. 7, 2009]