As used in this chapter:
(a) The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture.
(b) The term person means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other entity.
(c) The term cotton means
(1) all upland cotton harvested in the United States, and, except as used in section
2106 (e) of this title, includes cottonseed of such cotton and the products derived from such cotton and its seed and
(2) imports of upland cotton including the upland cotton content of the products derived from upland cotton (other than industrial products as defined by the Secretary). The term cotton shall not, however, include any entry of imported cotton by an importer that has a value or weight less than any de minimis figure as established in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary. Any de minimis figure as established under this paragraph shall be such as to minimize the burden in administering the assessment provision but still provide for the maximum participation of imports of cotton in the assessment provisions of this chapter.
(d) The term handler means any person who handles cotton or cottonseed or, for the purposes of sections
2102,
2105 (c), and
2112 of this title, any person who imports cotton, including de minimis amounts of cotton described in subsection (c) of this section, in the manner specified in the order or in the rules and regulations issued thereunder.
(e) The term United States means the 50 States of the United States of America.
(f) Cotton-producing State.—
(1) In general.—
The term cotton-producing State means any State in which the average annual production of cotton during the five years 19601964 was twenty thousand bales or more, except that any State producing cotton whose production during such period was less than such amount shall under regulations prescribed by the Secretary be combined with another State or States producing cotton in such manner that such average annual production of such combination of States totaled twenty thousand bales or more.
(2) Inclusions.— The term cotton-producing State includes
(A) any combination of States described in paragraph (1); and
(B) effective beginning with the 2008 crop of cotton, the States of Kansas, Virginia, and Florida.
(g) The term marketing includes the sale of cotton or the pledging of cotton to the Commodity Credit Corporation as collateral for a price support loan.
(h)
(1) The term importer means any person who enters, or withdraws from warehouse, cotton for consumption in the customs territory of the United States.
(2) The term import means any such entry.
