The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is accepting comments by Dec. 9 on proposed adjustments to user fees associated with providing services for live animal, animal product, bird, and germplasm imports and exports. Among other things, these fees fund quarantine services, the processing of import permit applications, port of entry inspections, inspections and approvals of import/export facilities and establishments, endorsements of export certificates, and services related to emergency situations that arise during the export or import process. APHIS does not receive directly appropriated funds for these activities.
The majority of the proposed adjustments are increases. These include the fees for simple import compliance assistance (from $111 to $249 per shipment), processing initial import permits (from $150 to $303 per application), inspection of live horses at U.S.-Mexico border ports of entry (from $70 to $288 per head), inspections of approved establishments, warehouses, and facilities (from $633 to $747 per year), and endorsement of export health certificates for animal and non-animal products (from $51 to $101).
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