Cotton Board Rules and Regulations: Adjusting Supplemental Assessment on Imports (2025 Amendments)

Document 2025-24113 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on December 31, 2025, with an effective date of March 1, 2026. The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is amending the Cotton Board Rules 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. In addition, AMS is updating the Import Assessment Table to account for changes since the last assessment adjustment in 2024. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/31/2025-24113/cotton-board-rules-and-regulations-adjusting-supplemental-assessment-on-imports-2025-amendments.

No. Document 2025-24113 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.