---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 589"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "589"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/589"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Export Standards for Apples"
---

# §589. Definitions


When used in this chapter—

- (1) The term “person” includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations.
- (2) The term “Secretary of Agriculture” means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States.
- (3) Except as provided herein, the term “foreign commerce” means commerce between any [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), or the District of Columbia, and any place outside of the United States or its possessions.
- (4) The term “apples” means fresh whole apples, whether or not the apples have been in storage.
- (5) The term “bulk container” means a container that contains a quantity of [apples](#4) weighing more than 100 pounds.

## Source credit

(June 10, 1933, ch. 59, § 9, 48 Stat. 124; Pub. L. 106–96, § 1(b), Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1321; Pub. L. 113–79, title X, § 10009(b), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 949.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Par. (5). Pub. L. 113–79 added par. (5).

1999—Par. (4). Pub. L. 106–96 added par. (4) and struck out former par. (4) which read as follows: “The term ‘apples and/or pears’ means fresh whole apples or pears, whether or not they have been in storage.”