Tobacco Marketing Quotas, Acreage Allotments, and Production Adjustment

Résumé

With revisions, this final rule adopts the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on January 11, 1994 (59 FR 1493). The proposed rule set out regulations for implementing for tobacco the domestic content assessment provisions added, as section 320C, to the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (1938 Act) by section 1106 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (the 1993 Act). Those provisions generally require a ``domestic manufacturer of cigarettes'' (as defined in the 1938 Act) to pay certain additional assessments and make certain tobacco purchases if, for any calendar year beginning with the 1994 calendar year, domestic tobacco constitutes less than 75 percent of the total tobacco used by the manufacturer to produce cigarettes in the United States. This final rule sets out requirements for recordkeeping, penalties, appeals, and other matters necessary to the enforcement and administration of section 320C.