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FEDERAL
VOLUME 2

4

1934

REGISTER
y NUMBER 202

A ITED

Washington, Tuesday, October 19, 1937
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

Bureau of Customs.

Bulletin, NSCP-201

T . D. 491961

Countervailing D uties
on D ried Scotia
S alt P ish F rom N ova
BU LLETIN 201

COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS INSTRUCTED TO COLLECT DUTIES UNLESS
SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE IS PRESENTED THAT N O PRODUCTION
BOUNTY W AS PAH ON THE FISH B Y THE GOVERNMENT OF NOVA
SCOTIA.

To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned:
The Bureau is in receipt of official information which establishes to its satisfaction that bounties or grants within the meaning of the provisions of section 303 of the Tariff Act of 1930 U. S. C., title 19, sec. 1303 are being paid or bestowed on the production in Nova Scotia of dried salt fish.
The net amount of the bounty or grant paid or bestowed on the production in Nova Scotia of each quintal of 112
pounds of dried salt fish is hereby declared to be $1.00 with respect to codfish and $.66% with respect to pollock, hake, haddock, and cusk.
It is represented that Nova Scotia is the center of the Canadian export trade in dried fish; that large quantities of dried fish are imported into Nova Scotia and subsequently reexported to foreign markets, and that no bounties or grants are paid or bestowed on such fish.
There shall be levied and collected a countervailing duty equal to the net amount of the bounty or grant paid or be stowed on dried salt fish of the kinds named in the second paragraph of this declaration, calculated at the rates indi cated therein, imported directly or indirectly from Nova Scotia and entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption after thirty days after the date of publication of this declaration in the weekly Treasury Decisions, unless there is filed with the entry a certificate issued by the United States Consul at Halifax identifying the particular dried fish by reference to the consignor, con signee, quantity and kind of fish, exporting vessel and date of exportation, and stating that it has been established to his satisfaction that the dried fish are not products of Nova Scotia and that no bounty or grant has been or will be paid in respect of such fish.
seal
1938 N aval S tores C onservation P rogram
James H. M o yle ,
Commissioner of Customs.
Approved, October 12, 1937.
S tephen B. G ibbons ,
Acting Secretary of the Treasury.
P J i. Doc. 37-3054; Piled, October 16,1937; 9:26 a .m .

For the inform ation of producers of gum naval stores in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. This bulletin explains the procedure to be followed in order to qualify fo r pay ments under the Naval Stores Conservation Program fo r 1938.
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of Agriculture under section 8 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, and in connection with the effectuation of the purposes of section .7 a of the said Act in 1938, payments and grants of aid will be made for participation in the 1938 Naval Stores Conserva tion Program in accordance with the provisions of this bul letin and such modifications thereof or other provisions as may hereafter be made.
The provisions of the 1938 Naval Stores Conservation Pro gram are subject to such legislation relating to said pro gram as the Congress of the United States may hereafter enact, and the making of the payments herein provided are contingent upon such appropriation as the said Congress may hereafter provide for such purpose; the amounts of such payments and grants of aid will be finally determined by such appropriation and by the extent of participation in the program. Any increase or decrease in rates of pay ments and deductions because of the extent of participation in the program will not be in excess of 10 percent.
Definition of Terms 1. Turpentine farm. The land and turpentine timber owned or leased, or operated on a share-crop basis, and under one management and in one general locality, which is being operated for the production of gum naval stores, and generally referred to as a turpentine place .
2. Gum naval stores. Crude gum oleoresin gum tur pentine, and gum rosin produced from live trees. Gum naval stores does not include naval stores produced from dead timber, stumps, knots, etc.
3. Producer. Any person or persons, firm, partner ship, or corporation operating a turpentine farm or place whether wholly or partially under fee ownership, cash lease, percentage lease, or other control producing gum naval stores and regardless o f how or where the raw product may be processed.
4. Face. The whole wound or aggregate of streaks made by chipping, streaking, or pulling live trees to stimulate the flow of gum.
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