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104 STAT. 3426 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 President. Northern Europe. seconds inch cotton, delivered C.LF. Northern Europe exceeds the Northern Europe price by more than 1.25 cents per pound, the Secretary shall issue marketing certificates to domestic users or exporters for documented sales made in the week following such consecutive 4-week period. "(ii) VALUE.— The value of the marketing certificates shall be based on the amount of the difference (reduced by 1.25 cents per pound) in such prices during the 4th week of the consecutive 4-week period multiplied by the quantity of upland cotton included in the documented sales. " (iii) ADMINISTRATION.—Clauses (iv) through (vii) of subparagraph (B) shall apply to marketing certificates issued under this subparagraph. Any such certificates may be transferred to other persons in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary. "(F) SPECIAL IMPORT QUOTA. — "(i) ESTABLISHMENT.— The President shall, within 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, establish an import quota program which shall provide that, during the period beginning August 1991 and ending July 31, 1996, whenever the Secretary determines and announces that for any consecutive 10-week period, the Friday through Thursday average price quotation for the lowest-priced United States growth, as quoted for Middling (M) one and three-thirty seconds inch cotton, delivered C.LF. Northern Europe, adjusted for the value of any certificates issued under subparagraph (E), exceeds the Northern Europe price by more than 1.25 cents per pound, there shall immediately be in effect a special limited global import quota. "(ii) QUANTITY.—The quota shall be equal to 1 week's consumption of upland cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate of the most recent 3 months for which data are aveiilable, " (iii) APPLICATION. —The quota shall apply to upland cotton purchased not later than 90 days after the date of the Secretary's announcement under clause (i) and entered into the United States not later than 180 days after such date. "(iv) OVERLAP. — A special quota period may be established that overlaps any existing quota period if required by clause (i), except that a special quota period may not be established under this paragraph if a special quota period has been established under subsection (n). "(6) RECOURSE LOANS FOR SEED COTTON. — In order to encourage and assist producers in the orderly ginning and marketing of their production of upland cotton, the Secretary shall make recourse loans available to such producers on seed cotton in accordance with authority vested in the Secretary under the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.). '(b) LOAN DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS.— "(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of upland cotton, make payments (hereafter