Tobacco Marketing Cards, Penalties, Identification of Marketings and Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements

Resumo

The Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) propose to amend regulations in order to provide for a system to electronically report non-auction purchases of burley and flue-cured tobacco at common delivery points known as receiving stations, and for the registration of these receiving stations. These changes are necessary because, with most burley and flue-cured tobacco currently being sold through private contract arrangements rather than the traditional auction system, meeting the current reporting requirements--manual reports on paper--would be extremely burdensome to the buyers of the tobacco. Also, an electronic reporting system will provide FSA with a nearly error-free method of tracking producer sales, because human error will be virtually eliminated. The proposed electronic reporting will permit the quick recording of large quantities of tobacco purchased and the equally quick reporting of these purchases to FSA for purposes of monitoring the flow of marketed tobacco. This proposed reporting system is voluntary and therefore any buyer who might find the system burdensome may comply with the record keeping and reporting requirements which are currentl