Cotton Board Rules and Regulations: Adjusting Supplemental Assessment on Imports (2025 Amendments)
Key claim: The Agricultural Marketing Service proposes to decrease the value assigned to imported cotton for supplemental assessment calculations to maintain parity with assessments on domestically produced cotton under the Cotton Research and Promotion Program.
Abstract
(Proposed Rule · Agriculture Department, Agricultural Marketing Service) The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is proposing to amend the Cotton Board Rules and Regulations to decrease the value assigned to imported cotton for the purposes of calculating supplemental assessments collected for use by the Cotton Research and Promotion Program. This amendment is required each year to ensure that assessments collected on imported cotton, and the cotton content of imported products, will be the same as those paid on domestically produced cotton. In addition, AMS is updating the Import Assessment Table to account for changes since the last assessment adjustment in 2024.
Why this matters
The Agricultural Marketing Service proposes to decrease the value assigned to imported cotton for supplemental assessment calculations to maintain parity with assessments on domestically produced cotton under the Cotton Research and Promotion Program.