Negócios · 11/01/19942 min de leitura

Tobacco Marketing Quotas, Acreage Allotments, and Production Adjustment

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The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (the 1993 Act) was enacted on August 10, 1993. Section 1106 of the 1993 Act amended the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (the 1938 Act) by adding new section 320C that imposes a domestic tobacco content requirement for cigarettes made in the United States by any ``domestic manufacturer of cigarettes'' as defined in the 1938 Act. Under the provisions of the Act, as amended, each such manufacturer of cigarettes must certify the percentage of tobacco produced in the United States which was used by the manufacturer to produce cigarettes during the preceding calendar year. If the percentage of United States produced tobacco used by a domestic manufacturer of cigarettes in the manufacture of cigarettes is less than 75 percent, the manufacturer will be subject to a domestic marketing assessment and must purchase a quantity of tobacco from inventories of the producer owned burley and flue-cured cooperative marketing associations in an amount equal to the quantity of imported tobacco used by the manufacturer to produce cigarettes during the preceding calendar year that exceeds 25 percent of the total quantity of tobacco used in such cigarette