---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 599"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "599"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/599"
units:
  - "Chapter 25A — Export Standards for Grapes and Plums"
---

# §599. Definitions


When used in this chapter—

- (1) The term “person” includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations.
- (2) The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- (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 “grapes” means vinifera species table grapes, European type, whether or not they have been in storage.
- (5) The term “plums” means both European and Japanese type, whether or not they have been in storage, but does not mean Italian-type prunes, nor damson-type plums.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–687, § 9, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 735.)