As used in this chapter, unless otherwise stated or unless the context or subject matter clearly indicates otherwise -

''Person'' means any individual, partnership, joint-stock company, corporation, or association.

''State Act'' means any Act of a State legislature authorizing a compact or compacts pursuant to the consent given in section 515 of this title.

''Commission'' means the tobacco commission created by any State Act.

''Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States.

''Kind of tobacco'' means one or more types of tobacco as classified in Service and Regulatory Announcement Numbered 118 of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture as listed below according to the name or names by which known: Types 11, 12, 13, and 14, known as flue-cured tobacco. Type 31, known as Burley tobacco.

Types 21, 22, 23, 24, 35, 36, and 37, known as fire-cured and dark air-cured tobacco. Types 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46, known as cigar-filler tobacco. Types 51, 52, 53, 54, and 65, known as cigar-binder tobacco. Types 61 and 62, known as cigar-wrapper tobacco.

''Association'' means any association of tobacco producers or other persons engaged in the tobacco industry, or both, formed under the laws of any State for the purpose of stabilizing the marketing of tobacco and providing crop protection to producers of tobacco in any State or States