Notice 1 Aug 2025 agriculture, regulatory compliance, usda, fees, inspection services

🌾2025/2026 AMS Services Rates Correction

On April 29, 2025, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published a notice in the Federal Register announcing the 2025/2026 rates it will charge for voluntary grading, inspection, certification, auditing, and laboratory services for a variety of agricultural commodities including meat and poultry, fruits and vegetables, eggs, dairy products, rice, and cotton and tobacco. This document corrects typographical errors in a table.

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Rule 21 Mar 2025 compliance, agriculture, usda, user fees, aphis, inspection services

✈️Delay on User Fees for Agricultural Quarantine Inspection Services

On May 7, 2024, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service published in the Federal Register a final rule amending the user fee regulations associated with the agricultural quarantine and inspection program. The final rule went into effect on October 1, 2024, with the exception of the removal of an exemption to the commercial aircraft user fee for small commercial passenger aircraft, which was scheduled to go into effect on April 1, 2025. In this document, we are issuing a postponement of the effective date of the removal of the exemption to the commercial aircraft user fee for small commercial passenger aircraft for 60 days, from April 1, 2025, to June 2, 2025.

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