USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced May 30 that Special Import Quota #7 for upland cotton will be established June 6, allowing importation of 7,680,747 kilograms (35,277 bales) of upland cotton, the same as the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Sept. 3, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Dec. 2, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the January through March 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
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USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced May 23 that Special Import Quota #6 for upland cotton will be established May 30, allowing importation of 7,680,747 kilograms (35,277 bales) of upland cotton, the same as the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Aug. 27, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Nov. 25, 2024. Special Import Quota #5 for upland cotton was announced May 16. Established May 23, the quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Aug. 20, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Nov. 18, 2024. The allowed amount in the #5 quota is also 7,680,747 kilograms (35,277 bales) of upland cotton. The quotas are equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the January through March 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced May 9 that Special Import Quota #4 for upland cotton will be established May 16, allowing importation of 7,680,747 kilograms (35,277 bales) of upland cotton, the same as the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Aug. 13, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Nov. 11, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the January through March 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will on May 20 "roll out" use of its APHIS Core Message Set for Certificates of Foreign Inspection and/or Treatment, or PPQ Form 203, for air shipments of precleared commodities from Chile, air shipments of precleared commodities from Thailand, and both air and maritime shipments of precleared commodities from Argentina, the agency said in a bulletin on May 6. This will create an electronic database -- for Certificates of Foreign Inspection and/or Treatment -- that can be "invoked" by filers and accessed by CBP agriculture inspectors through the Automated Commercial Environment Document Image System. "The process will function like current permitting and ePhyto capabilities in ACE," APHIS said.
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced May 2 that Special Import Quota #3 for upland cotton will be established May 9, allowing importation of 7,680,747 kilograms (35,277 bales) of upland cotton, up from 6,902,347 kilograms (31,702 bales) in the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Aug. 6, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Nov. 4, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the January 2024 through March 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
The Agricultural Marketing Service set its 2024-2025 fees for voluntary grading, inspection, certification, auditing and laboratory services for meat and poultry, fruits and vegetables, dairy products, cotton and tobacco, in a notice released May 3. Covered programs include cotton classification under cotton futures legislation (7 CFR 27); cotton classing, testing and standards (7 CFR 28); grading and inspection for approved plants and standards for grades of dairy products (7 CFR 58); inspection, certification and standards for fresh fruits, vegetables and other products (7 CFR 51); processed fruits and vegetables (7 CFR 52); meats, prepared meats and meat products (7 CFR 54); livestock, meat and other agricultural commodities (7 CFR 62); agricultural and vegetable seeds (7 CFR 75); grading of shell eggs (7 CFR 56); grading of poultry and rabbit products (7 CFR 70); services and general information (7 CFR 91); and tobacco inspection (7 CFR 29). Effective dates of fee changes range from July 1 to Jan. 1, depending on the commodity.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is moving forward with increased user fees for its agricultural quarantine and inspection service, it said last week. Announced in a pre-publication final rule released by APHIS, the fee increases will begin to apply on Oct. 1.
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced April 25 that Special Import Quota #2 for upland cotton will be established May 2, allowing importation of 6,902,347 kilograms (31,702 bales) of upland cotton, the same as the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than July 30, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Oct. 28, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the December 2023 through February 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced April 18 that Special Import Quota #1 for upland cotton will be established April 25, allowing importation of 6,902,347 kilograms (31,702 bales) of upland cotton, the same as the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than July 23, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Oct. 21, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the December 2023 through February 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
FORT LAUDERDALE -- The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will “hopefully” publish its notice launching Phase VII of Lacey Act Enforcement “in the next two-ish months,” said Erin Otto, of the agency’s Lacey Act program, on April 16. That will trigger a six-month countdown until full enforcement of Phase VII, which covers all non-composite plant products that Lacey Act requirements haven't previously covered.