§ 1205.201 Definitions.

(a)

Act

means the Cotton Research and Promotion Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 2101-2118; Pub. L. 89-502, as amended).

(b)

Administrator

means the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service, or any officer or employee of USDA to whom authority has been delegated to act in the Administrator's stead.

(c)

Agricultural Marketing Service

also referred to as “AMS” means the Agricultural Marketing Service of the Department.

(d)

Cotton

means all Upland cotton harvested in the United States or imports of Upland cotton, including the Upland cotton content of the products derived thereof. The term

cotton

shall not, however, include any entry of imported cotton by an importer which has a value or weight less than the

de minimis

value established by the Secretary or industrial products as that term is defined by regulation.

(e)

Upland Cotton

means all cultivated varieties of the species

Gossypium hirsutum L.

(f)

Department

means the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

(g)

Deputy Administrator

means the Deputy Administrator for Field Operations and also referred to as “DAFO.”

(h)

Farm Service Agency

also referred to as “FSA” means the Farm Service Agency of the Department.

(i)(1)

Importer

means any person who enters, or withdraws from warehouse, cotton for consumption in the customs territory of the United States and who, during a 12-month period ending no later than 90 days prior to the conduct of the referendum, imported Upland cotton, and

(2) the term

import

means any such entry.

(j)

Order

means the Cotton Research and Promotion Order.

(k)

Person

means any individual 18 years of age or older, or any partnership, corporation, association, or any other entity.

(l)

Producer

means any person who shares in a cotton crop, or in the proceeds thereof, as an owner of the farm, cash tenant, landlord of a share tenant, share tenant, or sharecropper, that planted the cotton during the representative period.

(m)

Representative Period

means the period designated by the Secretary pursuant to section 8 of the Act (7 U.S.C. 2107).

on, association, or any other entity.

(l)

Producer

means any person who shares in a cotton crop, or in the proceeds thereof, as an owner of the farm, cash tenant, landlord of a share tenant, share tenant, or sharecropper, that planted the cotton during the representative period.

(m)

Representative Period

means the period designated by the Secretary pursuant to section 8 of the Act (7 U.S.C. 2107).

(n)

Secretary

means the Secretary of Agriculture or any other officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture to whom there has heretofore been delegated, or to whom there may be hereafter be delegated, the authority to act in the Secretary's stead.

(o)

State

means each of the 50 states.

(p)

United States

means 50 states of the United States of America.

(q)

Customs and Border Protection

means the U.S. Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security. Customs and Border Protection is also referred to as “CBP.”