The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is amending the Cotton Board Ruled and Regulations, decreasing 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.
The direct rule is effective October 4, 2016, without further action or notice, unless significant adverse comment is received by September 6, 2016. If significant adverse comment is received, AMS will publish a timely withdrawal of the amendment in the Federal Register.
