DEFINITIONS.

SEC. 405. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Act— (1) The term “agency” includes any agency, department, board, wholly or partly owned corporation, instrumentality, commission, or establishment of the United States. 76 Stat. 903 (2) The term “duty or other import restriction” includes (A) the rate and form of an import duty, and (B) a limitation, prohibition, charge, and exaction other than duty, imposed on importation or imposed for the regulation of imports. (3) The term “firm” includes an individual proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation (including a development corporation), business trust, cooperative, trustees in bankruptcy, and receivers under decree of any court. A firm, together with any predecessor, successor, or affiliated firm controlled or substantially beneficially owned by substantially the same persons, may be considered a single firm where necessary to prevent unjustifiable benefits. (4) An imported article is “directly competitive with” a domestic article at an earlier or later stage of processing, and a domestic article is “directly competitive with” an imported article at an earlier or later stage of processing, if the importation of the imported article has an economic effect on producers of the domestic article comparable to the effect of importation of articles in the same stage of processing as the domestic article. For purposes of this paragraph, the unprocessed article is at an earlier stage of processing. (5) A product of a country or area is an article which is the growth, produce, or manufacture of such country or area. (6) The term “modification”, as applied to any duty or other import restriction, includes the elimination of any duty.