—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 13. 1973
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Additional
Secretary of Agriculture Earl
L. Butz called the attention of
food processors and other users
of nonfat dry milk to a temporary
increase in the import quota for
that product.
The increase was made ef
fective by a Presidential
Proclamation issued by
President Nixon under the
authority of Section 22(b) of the
Agricultural Adjustment Act, as
amended. The Proclamation
authorizes the importation of 25
million pounds of nonfat dry milk
for a temporary period ending
February 15, 1973.
Normally, domestic production
of nonfat dry milk exceeds
commercial demand and the
surplus is purchased by the
Commodity Credit Corporation
(CCC) which, under the
Department’s support program
-for milk, stands ready to pur
chase non-fat dry milk at a fixed
price related to the support price
for manufacturing milk.
Currently, the milk support price
is $4.93 per hundredweight, and
the CCC purchase price for
nonfat dry milk is 31 7 cents per
pound.
Secretary Butz noted that
despite a continuing rise in fresh
milk production, the output of
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Nonfat Dry Milk Imports Authorized
nonfat dry milk has been lower.
Increased amounts of fresh milk
have gone into fluid use and into
the production of certain
processed products, especially
cheese and frozen dairy
products; consequently, smaller
amounts of manufacturing milk
have reached the plants which
produce butter and nonfat dry
milk. The present tight supply
situation also reflects seasonal
variations, since November and
December are the low months of
dairy production.
Until late November, CCC
continued to purchase nonfat dry
milk and until October, to sell
substantial quantities back to the
trade On October 20, nonfat dry
milk was removed from the
monthly CCC sales list. In a
related action, the Department
stopped foreign sales and
donations of nonfat dry milk in
October. CCC now has no un
committed inventory.
The current shortage of nonfat
dry milk is in some respects
comparable to the situation
which existed in Europe last year
when demand temporarily ex
ceeded supply. In that situation,
the U.S. (which normally is not a
butter exporter) sold 133.7
million pounds of butter, mainly
where
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to the United Kingdom but also to
18 other countries. More recently,
on December 5,1972, the U.S. sold
1,138,743 pounds to Canada.
Users of nonfat dry milk, such
as food processors, ice 'cream
manufacturers, candy makers
and pharmaceutical firms, have
reported increasing difficulties in
obtaining adequate supplies of
dry milk. Continued shortages
could lead users to shift to sub
stitutes, and experience has
shown that such shifts in
ingredients formulas tend to be
permanent.
“We want to keep people in the
habit of using milk products,”
Secretary Butz said.
Losses of important outlets for
nonfat dry milk to substitutes
would also have a permanent
adverse impact on the dairy
support program.
The increase in permitted
imports is intended to meet the
temporary shortage and has been
timed so as to permit the inflow of
supplies when they are most
needed. Within a relatively few
weeks, the cyclical upturn in
dairy production should cover all
requirements.
The temporary increase of 25
million pounds in the import
quota will be on a first come,
first-served basis; no licenses
will be required. The maximum
amount which an individual
importer may bring in, however,
is limited to 2,500,000 pounds.
Imports will not be restricted to
specific countries of origin.
The importation of most dairy
products is limited by imports
quotas established by
Presidential Proclamation under
the Section 22 authority. Section
22 provides for limitations on
imports, following an in
vestigation by the Tariff Com
mission and a Presidential
determination, of items found to
be interfering or likely to in
terfere with the price support
program for milk. Imports of
nondat dry milk have been under
quota control since 1953, when an
annual quota of 1,807,000 pounds
was proclaimed by President
Eisenhower.
The emergency Section 22
action will, as provided by law,
be subject to an investigation and
report to the President by the
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Honduras to the list of countries
eligible to ship meat to the United
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meat inspection laws and
regulations conform to U.S.
standards. The one plant that will
be exporting meat was found to
meet requirements of the USDA
inspection program. Chilled fresh
beef is the product intended for
export.
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country have a meat inspection
program equal to that in the
United States before it may
export meat here.
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will check each animal before
and after slaughter and will
check the meat for
wholesomeness throughout any
processing steps. Members of the
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to check the effectiveness of
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in force and is not affected by the
emergency Section 22 action.
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