CBP, APHIS come up short on ag inspection fees

Regulatory/Trade

Tuesday, March 05, 2013
   A congressional watchdog agency found that agriculture inspection fees collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service continue to come up short.    Specifically, the Government Accountability Office’s analysis discovered a more than $325 million gap between fee revenues and total program costs in fiscal year 2011, or 38 percent of Agricultural Quarantine Inspection (AQI) program costs. APHIS, for example, does not collect AQI fees fo...
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