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title: "7 U.S.C. § 1744"
description: "Sale of commodities in set-aside; exemption from pricing limitations"
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title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
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chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY SET-ASIDE"
section: "1744"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1744"
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# 7 U.S.C. § 1744 - Sale of commodities in set-aside; exemption from pricing limitations

## Text

(a) The Corporation shall have authority to sell, without regard to section 1743(a)(7) of this title, any commodity covered by the commodity set-aside for the purpose of rotating stocks or consolidating inventories, any such sale to be offset by purchase of the same commodity in a substantially equivalent quantity or of a substantially equivalent value.

(b) Dispositions pursuant to this chapter shall not be subject to the pricing limitations of section 1427 of this title.

(Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title I, § 104, 68 Stat. 898.)