# Cotton Board Rules and Regulations: Adjusting Supplemental Assessment on Imports (2018 Amendments)
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Direct final rule. · Published 2018-08-17 · Effective 2018-10-16 · 83 FR 40931
## Document
- **Document number:** 2018-17723
- **Category:** trade
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 83 FR 40931
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 1205
- **Publication date:** 2018-08-17
- **Effective date:** 2018-10-16
- **USDA docket:** Doc. #AMS-CN-18-0013
## Abstract

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is amending the Cotton Board Rules and Regulations, increasing 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 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) statistical reporting numbers that were amended since the last assessment adjustment in 2017.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/08/17/2018-17723/cotton-board-rules-and-regulations-adjusting-supplemental-assessment-on-imports-2018-amendments)
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