### Question
What does first domestic processing mean?


### Answer
**First domestic processing** has the following meaning in *7 U.S.C. § 609*:

> each domestic processing, including each processing of successive domestic processings, of sugar beets, sugarcane, or raw sugar, which directly results in direct-consumption sugar

#### Citation:
  - *7 U.S.C. § 609*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 26-AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT > SUBCHAPTER III-COMMODITY BENEFITS**

