---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 511a"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "511a"
heading: "Declaration of purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/511a"
units:
  - "Chapter 21A — Tobacco Inspection"
---

# §511a. Declaration of purpose


Transactions in [tobacco](/usc/7/511.md?p=f) involving the sale thereof at auction as commonly conducted at [auction markets](/usc/7/511.md?p=g) are affected with a public interest; such transactions are carried on by [tobacco](/usc/7/511.md?p=f) producers generally and by [persons](/usc/7/511.md?p=a) engaged in the business of buying and selling [tobacco](/usc/7/511.md?p=f) in [commerce](/usc/7/511.md?p=i); the classification of [tobacco](/usc/7/511.md?p=f) according to type, grade, and other characteristics affect the prices received therefor by producers; without uniform standards of classification and inspection the evaluation of [tobacco](/usc/7/511.md?p=f) is susceptible to speculation, manipulation, and control, and unreasonable fluctuations in prices and quality determinations occur which are detrimental to producers and [persons](/usc/7/511.md?p=a) handling [tobacco](/usc/7/511.md?p=f) in [commerce](/usc/7/511.md?p=i); such fluctuations constitute a burden upon [commerce](/usc/7/511.md?p=i) and make the use of uniform standards of classification and inspection imperative for the protection of producers and others engaged in [commerce](/usc/7/511.md?p=i) and the public interest therein.


## Source credit

(Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 623, § 2, 49 Stat. 731.)