§1359aa. Information reporting

(a) Duty of processors, refiners and manufacturers to report

(1) Processors and refiners

All sugarcane processors, cane sugar refiners, and sugar beet processors shall furnish the Secretary, on a monthly basis, such information as the Secretary may require to administer sugar programs, including the quantity of purchases of sugarcane, sugar beets, and sugar, and production, importation, distribution, and stock levels of sugar.

(2) Manufacturers of crystalline fructose

All manufacturers of crystalline fructose from corn (hereafter in this subpart referred to as "crystalline fructose") shall furnish the Secretary, on a monthly basis, such information as the Secretary may require with respect to the manufacturer's distribution of crystalline fructose.

(b) Duty of producers to report

The Secretary may require a producer of sugarcane or sugar beets to report, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary, the producer's sugarcane or sugar beet yields and acres planted to sugarcane or sugar beets, respectively.

(c) Penalty

Any person willfully failing or refusing to furnish the information, or furnishing willfully any false information, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each such violation.

(d) Monthly reports

Taking into consideration the information received under subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary shall publish on a monthly basis composite data on production, imports, distribution, and stock levels of sugar and composite data on distributions of crystalline fructose.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, §359a, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title IX, §902, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3479 ; amended Pub. L. 102–237, title I, §111(c), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1830 .)

Codification

Another section 359a of act Feb. 16, 1938, was renumbered section 359e and is classified to section 1359a of this title.

Amendments

1991-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–237, §111(c)(1), added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a) which read as follows: "All cane sugar refiners and sugar beet processors and all manufacturers of crystalline fructose from corn (hereafter in this subpart referred to as 'crystalline fructose') shall furnish the Secretary, on a monthly basis, such information as the Secretary may require with respect to the person's importation, distribution, and stock levels of sugar or crystalline fructose, respectively."

Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 102–237, §111(c)(2), (3), added subsec. (b) and redesignated former subsecs. (b) and (c) as (c) and (d), respectively.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102–237, §111(c)(2), (4), redesignated subsec. (c) as (d), substituted "data on production, imports," for "data on imports," and inserted "composite data on distributions of" after "sugar and".

Effective Date

Subpart effective beginning with the 1991 crop of an agricultural commodity, with provision for prior crops, see section 1171 of Pub. L. 101–624, set out as an Effective Date of 1990 Amendment note under section 1421 of this title.

Inapplicability of Section

Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning Apr. 4, 1996, and ending Dec. 31, 2002, see section 7301(a)(1)(E) of this title.

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in section 1359jj of this title.