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| shorttitle        = Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930
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| longtitle         = An Act to suppress unfair and fraudulent practices in the marketing of perishable agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce.
| colloquialacronym = PACA
| nickname          = 
| enacted by        = 71st
| effective date    = June 10, 1930
| public law url    = 
| cite public law   = {{USPL|71|325}}
| cite statutes at large = {{usstat|46|531}}
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| introducedin    = Senate
| introducedbill  = {{USBill|71|S.|108}}
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| introduceddate  = May 3, 1929
| committees      = [[United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry|Senate Agriculture]], [[United States House Committee on Agriculture|House Agriculture]]
| passedbody1     = Senate
| passeddate1     = June 3, 1929
| passedvote1     = passed
| passedbody2     = House
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| passeddate2     = May 14, 1930
| passedvote2     = passed
| conferencedate  = May 16, 1930
| passedbody3     = House
| passeddate3     = June 3, 1930
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| passedbody4     = Senate
| passeddate4     = June 3, 1930
| passedvote4     = agreed
| signedpresident = [[Herbert Hoover]]
| signeddate      = June 10, 1930
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The '''Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930''' (PACA), enacted 10 June 1930 and codified as Chapter 20A of [[Title 7 of the United States Code]], is a law that authorizes the regulation of the buying and selling of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables to prevent unfair trading practices and to assure that sellers will be paid promptly. 

According to PACA, both produce sellers and buyers must pay fees for a license in order to do business, and these license fees are the source of funding for a trust program that resolves disputes and protects sellers from non-payment when buyers become bankrupt. Amendments to the Act in 1995 ({{USPL|104|48}}, Sec. 3) include a 3-year phase out of the annual license fees for retailers and grocery wholesaler-dealers to be replaced by one-time fee. ({{USCode|7|499a}} et seq.).

==References==
*{{CRS|article = Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition|url = http://ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/05jun/97-905.pdf|author= Jasper Womach}}

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[[Category:71st United States Congress]]
[[Category:United States federal agriculture legislation]]