---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 581"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "581"
heading: "Standards of export; establishment; shipping without certificate forbidden; hearings"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/581"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Export Standards for Apples"
---

# §581. Standards of export; establishment; shipping without certificate forbidden; hearings


It shall be unlawful for any [person](/usc/7/589.md?p=1) to ship or offer for shipment or for any carrier, or any steamship company, or any [person](/usc/7/589.md?p=1) to transport or receive for transportation to any foreign destination, except as provided in this chapter, any [apples](/usc/7/589.md?p=4) in packages which are not accompanied by a certificate issued under [authority](/usc/7/2009aa.md?p=1) of the [Secretary of Agriculture](/usc/7/589.md?p=2) showing that such [apples](/usc/7/589.md?p=4) are of a Federal or [State](/usc/7/1359aa.md?p=5) grade which meets the minimum of quality established by the Secretary for shipment in export. The Secretary is authorized to prescribe, by regulations, the requirements, other than those of grade, which the fruit must meet before certificates are issued. The Secretary shall provide opportunity, by public hearing or otherwise, for interested [persons](/usc/7/589.md?p=1) to examine and make recommendation with respect to any standard of export proposed to be established or designated, or regulation prescribed, by the Secretary for the purposes of this chapter.


## Source credit

(June 10, 1933, ch. 59, § 1, 48 Stat. 123; Pub. L. 106–96, § 1(c), Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1321.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1999—Pub. L. 106–96 struck out “and/or pears” after “any apples” and “or pears” after “such apples”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Act June 10, 1933, ch. 59, § 11, as added by Pub. L. 106–96, § 1(a), Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1321, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Export Apple Act’.”.