DEFINITION OF COMMODITY.

SEC. 201. DEFINITION OF COMMODITY.Section 101 of title 11, United States Code (as amended by section 101), is amended— 104 STAT. 269 (1) in paragraph (24)— (A) by inserting “as defined in section 761(8) of this title, or any similar good, article, service, right, or interest which is presently or in the future becomes the subject of dealing in the forward contract trade,” after “transfer of a commodity,”, and (B) by inserting “,including, but not limited to, a repurchase transaction, reverse repurchase transaction, consignment, lease, swap, hedge transaction, deposit, loan, option, allocated transaction, unallocated transaction, or any combination thereof or option thereon” after “entered into”; (2) in paragraph (25) by striking out “commodities” and inserting “a commodity, as defined in section 761(8) of this title, or any similar good, article, service, right, or interest which is presently or in the future becomes the subject of dealing in the forward contract trade”; (3) by redesignating paragraphs (34) through (55), as paragraphs (36) through (57), respectively; and (4) by inserting after paragraph (33) the following: “(34) ‘margin payment’ means, for purposes of the forward contract provisions of this title, payment or deposit of cash, a security or other property, that is commonly known in the forward contract trade as original margin, initial margin, maintenance margin, or variation margin, including mark-to-market payments, or variation payments; and “(35) ‘settlement payment’ means, for purposes of the forward contract provisions of this title, a preliminary settlement payment, a partial settlement payment, an interim settlement payment, a settlement payment on account, a final settlement payment, a net settlement payment, or any other similar payment commonly used in the forward contract trade;”.