[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1427.103]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1427_COTTON--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart C_Upland Cotton User Marketing Certificates
 
Sec.  1427.103  Eligible upland cotton.

    (a) For purposes of this subpart, eligible upland cotton is 
domestically produced baled upland cotton which bale is opened by an 
eligible domestic user on or after August 1, 1991, and on or before July 
31, 2008, or exported by an eligible exporter on or after July 18, 1996, 
and on or before July 31, 2008, during a Friday through Thursday period 
in which a payment rate, determined under Sec.  1427.107, is in effect 
and which meets the requirements of paragraphs (b) and (c) of this 
section.
    (b) Eligible upland cotton must be either:
    (1) Baled lint, including baled lint classified by USDA's 
Agricultural Marketing Service as Below Grade;
    (2) Loose;
    (3) Semi-processed motes which are of a quality suitable, without 
further processing, for spinning, papermaking or bleaching;
    (4) Re-ginned (processed) motes.
    (c) Eligible upland cotton must not be:
    (1) Cotton for which a payment, under the provisions of this 
subpart, has been made available;
    (2) Imported cotton;
    (3) Raw (unprocessed) motes; or
    (4) Textile mill wastes.