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USDA Announces Special Import Quota #20 for Upland Cotton

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation announced March 4 that Special Import Quota #20 for upland cotton will be established March 11, allowing importation of 8,648,011 kilograms (39,720 bales) of upland cotton, the same as the previous quota…

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period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than June 8, 2021, and entered into the U.S. by Sept. 6, 2021. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the October 2020 through December 2020 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.