AMS Decreases Fees for Rice Inspection Services

The Agricultural Marketing Service is lowering its fees for rice inspection services, it said in a notice. The final rule decreases fees across the board by 20 percent for fiscal year 2020, and by another 20 percent for FY21. Export port services will fall to $0.059 per hundredweight in the first year, and to $0.047 in the second, which begins Oct. 1, 2020. The new fees are applicable as of Jan. 1, 2020.