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

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service 7 CFR Part 1205 [Doc. No. AMS-CN-25-0018] ( printed page 9977) AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture (USDA). ACTION: Withdrawal of direct final rule. SUMMARY: Due to receipt of a significant adverse comment, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is withdrawing the direct final rule, “Cotton Board Rules and Regulations: Adjusting Supplemental Assessment on Imports (2025 Amendments),” that published on December 31, 2025. DATES: Effective February 26, 2026, AMS withdraws the direct final rule published at 90 FR 61261 , on December 31, 2025. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue Coleman, Branch Chief, Research and Promotion, Cotton and Tobacco Program, AMS, USDA, 3275 Appling Road, Memphis, Tennessee 38133; telephone (901) 384-3000; facsimile (901) 384-3033; or email at CottonRP@usda.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 31, 2025, AMS published a direct final rule ( 90 FR 61261 ). The rule amended 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. That 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, in the direct final rule, AMS updated the Import Assessment Tab…