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VOLUME 20

REGISTER
1 9 34

NUMBER 115

Washington, Tuesday, June 14, 1955

TITLE 7 AGRICULTURE
Chapter IX Agricultural Marketing Service Marketing Agreements and Orders, Department of Agriculture Subchapter B Prohibitions of Imported Commodities P ar t
1067 A v o cad o s
AVOCADO REGULATION NO. 2

1067.2 Avocado Regulation No. 2.
a On and after the effective time of this section, the importation into the United States of any avocados is pro hibited unless:
1 The individual fruit in each lot of such avocados weigh at least 14 ounces:
Provided, That not to exceed 10 percent, by count, of the individual fruit in each lot may weigh less than 14 ounces but not less than 12 ounces, and not to ex ceed double such tolerance percentage shall be permitted for an individual con tainer in a lot if the entire lot is within the tolerance;
2 Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph 1 of this paragraph, any person may import any lot of avocados if Ci the exterior seed coat of the indi vidual fruit is of a brown color charac teristic of a mature avocado, or ii such avocados, when mature, normally change color to any shade of red or purple and any portion of the skin of the individual fruit has changed to the color normal for that fruit when mature; and 3 Each such importation is made in conformance with the general regula tions Part 1060 of this subchapter; 19
F. R. 7707, 8012 applicable to the im portation of listed commodities and the requirements of this section.
b Inspection, by the Federal or Fed eral-State Inspection Service, or such other governmental inspection service as may be designated or approved by the Administrator, with appropriate evidence thereof in the form of an official inspec tion certificate, issued by the respective service, applicable to the particular ship ment of avocados, is required on all im ports of avocados pursuant to 1060.3
of this subchapter.
c Inspection certificates shall cover only the quantity of avocados that is
being imported at a particular port o f entry by a particular importer.
d The inspections performed, and certificates issued, by the Federal or Fed eral-State Inspection Service shall be in accordance with the rules and regula tions of the Department governing the inspection and certification of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other products Part 51 of this title . The cost of any inspection and certification shall be borne by the applicant therefor.
e Each inspection certificate issued with respect to any avocados to be im ported into the United States shall set forth, among other things:
1 The date and place of inspection;
2 The name of the shipper, or ap plicant;
3 The name of the importer con signee ;
4 The commodity inspected;
5 The quantity of the commodity covered by the certificate ;
6 The principal identifying marks on the containers;
7 The railroad car initials and num ber, the truck and trailer license number, the name o f the vessel, or other identi fication of the shipment; and 8 The following statement, if the facts warrant: Meets U. S. import re quirements under section 8e of the A gri cultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937.
f Notwithstanding any other provi sion of this section, any importation of avocados which, in the aggregate, does not exceed 55 pounds may be imported without regard to the restrictions speci fied in this section.
g I t is hereby determined, on the basis of the information currently avail able, that the requirements set forth in this section are comparable to the ma turity regulation now in effect for avo cados grown in South Florida, which regulation was published in the F e d e r a l R e g is t e r issue of May 17,1955 969.306
of this chapter; 20 F. R. 3427.
It is hereby found that it is impracti cable and contrary to the public interest to postpone the effective time of this regulation beyond that hereinafter speci fied 5 U. S. C. 1001 et seq. because a
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CONTENTS
Agricultural Marketing Service Fag Proposed rule making:
Butter, cheese and other manu factured or processed dairy products; grading, inspection, sampling, grade labeling and supervision o f packaging Rules and regulations:
Avocado regulation; prohibi tions of imported commod ities_________________________

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Agricultural Research Service Proposed rule making:
Anti-hog-cholera serum and hog-cholera virus; b u d g e t and rate of assessment for 1955_________________________

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Agriculture Department See Agricultural Marketing Serv ice; Agricultural Research Serv ice.

Air Force Department Rules and regulations:
Officers Reserve; general--------

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Army Department See also Engineers Corps.
Rules and regulations:
Claims against the U n i t e d States; claims of military personnel and civilian em ployees for property damaged, lost, destroyed, captured, or abandoned incident to their service_______________________

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Civil Aeronautics Board Notices:
Southwest Airways Co.; prehearing conference on perma nent certificate case------------

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Commerce Department See also Maritime Administration.
Notices:
Claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act_________________- 4164

Customs Bureau Rules and regulations:
Vessels in foreign and domestic trades; waiver o f coastwise towing laws_______ ---------

Defense Department See Air Force Department; Army Department.
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