APHIS REVISES AQI PROGRAM AND FEES
May 13, 2024
On April 26, 2024 U.S Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) published updated U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (“APHIS”) Agricultural Quarantine and Inspection (“AQI”) program user fees. These restructured fees, which were last updated in 2015, will go into effect on October 1, 2024 and are intended to allow the AQI program to recover the costs of carrying out safeguards required by The Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade (“FACT”) Act of 1990. The adjusted fee structure is as follows in U.S. dollars. Carriers should take note of the two highlighted fees which will change on October 1, 2024:
|
Final Fees Fee Service Activity |
Current |
October 1, 2024 |
|
Commercial Vessel (per vessel arrival) |
825.00 |
2,903.73 |
|
Commercial Vessel (per vessel arrival) Great Lakes/Cascadia |
N/A |
837.51 |
|
Commercial Truck (per truck arrival) |
7.29 |
12.40 |
|
Commercial Rail (per railroad car arrival) |
2.00 |
6.51 |
|
Commercial Aircraft (per aircraft arrival) |
225.00 |
281.39 |
|
Air Passenger (per passenger arrival) |
3.83 |
3.71 |
|
Cruise Vessel Passenger (per passenger arrival) |
1.68 |
1.25 |
|
Treatments (per enclosure) |
237.00 |
240.60 |
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