# Shipping holiday

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In United States agriculture, a **shipping holiday** is a [fruit and vegetable marketing order](/source/Fruit_and_vegetable_marketing_order) feature that prohibits the commercial shipping of the regulated commodity during periods following certain holidays when demand is historically low, such as the several days after Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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