USDA: USDA announces special import quota #10 for upupland cotton.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 October 1999-USDA: USDA announces special import quota #10 for upland cotton (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:281099 WASHINGTON -- James Kearney, Acting Executive Vice President of USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation, today announced a special import quota for upland cotton that permits importation of a quantity of upland cotton equal to one week's domestic mill use.

The quota will be established on November 4, 1999, allowing importation of 40,830,552 kilograms (187,533 bales) of upland cotton. This action is being carried out under the authority of section 136(b) of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, which requires that a special import quota be determined and announced immediately if, for any consecutive...