§ 1220.41 - Effective date of tea standards.

The standards prepared and submitted to the Secretary of Health and Human Services by the Board of Tea Experts, appointed by him on or before February 15 of each year, shall be fixed and established as standards under the act and shall be in effect from the 1st day of May of each year until April 30, inclusive, of the following year, except that tea shipped from abroad prior to May 1 of any year shall be governed by the standards in effect at the time of shipment. Such standards for each year will be published in the Federal Register.