PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 479-OCT. 3, 1944 Sale of surplus farm commodities in U. 8 . Restriction on sales for export. Government-owned strategic minerals and metals. 50tU. . 80.O8 -98f; Snpp. II, I 98e. Contractor inven- tory. Forms. " Strategic minerals and metals." Fabricated articles. Exclusions. Provisional with- holding of supplies. with the approval in writing of the War Food Administrator or his successor. (c) Surplus farm commodities shall not be sold in the United States under this Act in quantities in excess of, or at prices less than, those applicable with respect to sales of such commodities by the Com- modity Credit Corporation, or at less than current prevailing market prices, whichever may be the higher, unless such commodities are being disposed of, pursuant to this Act, only for export; and the Commodity Credit Corporation may dispose of or cause to be disposed of for cash or its equivalent in goods or for adequately secured credit, for export only, and at competitive world prices, any farm commodity or product thereof without regard to restrictions with respect to the disposal of commodities imposed upon it by any law: Provided, That no food or food product shall be sold or otherwise disposed of under this subsection for export (1) if there is a shortage of such food or food product in the United States or if such sale or other disposition may result in such a shortage, or (2) if such food or food product is needed to supply the normal demands of consumers in the United States. STOCK PmriG SEO. 22 . (a) All Government-owned accumulations of strategic minerals and metals, including those owned by any Government cor- poration, shall be transferred by the owning agency, when determined to be surplus pursuant to this Act, to the account of the Treasury Procurement Division and shall be added to the stock pile authorized by the Act of June 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 811), as amended, and shall be subject to its provisions: Provided, That contractor inventory shall be so transferred only when the owning agency has taken possession of and determined such inventory to be surplus. The minerals and metals may be transferred in any form in which they are held, but the owning agency or the Treasury Procurement Division is author- ized either before or after such legal transfer to cause such minerals or metals to be put into forms best suited for storage and use for the common defense. As used in this section the phrase "strategic min- erals and metals" means copper, lead, zinc, tin, magnesium, manganese, chromite, nickel, molybdenum, tungsten mercury, mica, quartz crystals, industrial diamonds, cadmium, fluorspar, cobalt, tantalite, antimony, vanadium, platinum, beryl, graphite (and to which may be added aluminum or any other minerals or metals in such quantities or amounts as the Army and Navy Munitions Board may determine to be necessary for the stock pile authorized by the Act of June 7, 1939), and shall include ores, concentrates, alloys, scrap, and partially and completely fabricated articles of which the principal components by value consist of such minerals and metals, but shall not include such fabricated articles as the Army and Navy determine are not suitable for their use in the form in which fabricated and which may be dis- posed of commercially at value substantially in excess of the metal market price of the component minerals and metals of such fabricated articles. (b) Pending a determination by the War Production Board that the supplies of the respective strategic minerals and metals available to industry are sufficient to meet the current requirements of industry the owning agency subject to the regulations prescribed by the Surplus Property Board shall withhold from transfer under this section an amount of such minerals and metals equal to the deficiency, if any, estimated by the War Production Board as likely to exist for the re- quirements of industry for a period of six months for purposes other than war production; and may dispose of the minerals and metals 776 [58 STAT.
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