SUBMISSION COVER SHEET

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Registered Entity Identifier Code (optional): 23-283

Organization: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ("CME")

Filing as a: DCM SEF DCO SDR 

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Filing Date (mm/dd/yy): July 6, 2023 Filing Description: Modifications to the Lumber 

Futures Volume Incentive Program

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Organization Rules and Rule Amendments

Certification § 40.6(a)

Approval § 40.5(a)

Notification § 40.6(d)

Advance Notice of SIDCO Rule Change § 40.10(a)

SIDCO Emergency Rule Change § 40.10(h)

Rule Numbers: Not Applicable

New Product Please note only ONE product per Submission.

Certification § 40.2(a) 

Certification Security Futures § 41.23(a)

Certification Swap Class § 40.2(d)

Approval § 40.3(a)

Approval Security Futures § 41.23(b)

Novel Derivative Product Notification § 40.12(a)

Swap Submission § 39.5

Official Product Name: 

Product Terms and Conditions (product related Rules and Rule Amendments)

Certification § 40.6(a) 

Certification Made Available to Trade Determination § 40.6(a)

Certification Security Futures § 41.24(a)

Delisting (No Open Interest) § 40.6(a) 

Approval § 40.5(a)

Approval Made Available to Trade Determination § 40.5(a)

Approval Security Futures § 41.24(c)

Approval Amendments to enumerated agricultural products § 40.4(a), § 40.5(a)

“Non-Material Agricultural Rule Change” § 40.4(b)(5)

Notification § 40.6(d)

Official Name(s) of Product(s) Affected: 

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300 Vesey Street New York, NY 10282 T 212 299 2200 F 212 301 4645 christopher.bowen@cmegroup.com cmegroup.com

Christopher Bowen 

Managing Director and Chief Regulatory Counsel

Legal Department

July 6, 2023

VIA ELECTRONIC PORTAL

Christopher J. Kirkpatrick 

Office of the Secretariat

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Three Lafayette Centre

1155 21st Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20581

RE: Modifications to the Lumber Futures Volume Incentive Program

CME Submission No. 23-283

Dear Mr. Kirkpatrick:

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (“CME” or “Exchange”) hereby notifies the Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) of plans to modify the Lumber Futures Volume Incentive Program

(“Program”). The modifications to the Program will become effective on August 1, 2023.

Exhibit 1 sets forth the terms of this Program. Modifications appear below, with additions underlined and deletions 

overstruck.

CME reviewed the designated contract market core principles (“Core Principles”) as set forth in the Commodity

Exchange Act (“CEA”). During the review, CME staff identified the following Core Principles as potentially being 

impacted: Monitoring of Trading, Execution of Transactions, Protection of Market Participants, Compliance with 

Rules, Availability of General Information, and Recordkeeping.

The Program does not impact the Exchange’s ability to perform its trade practice and market surveillance obligations 

under the CEA and CME market regulation staff will monitor trading in the Program’s products to prevent 

manipulative trading and market abuse. Additionally, CME has implemented systems to track Program participants’ 

volume to ensure proper distribution of earned incentives. The Program does not impact the Exchange’s order 

execution. Participants in the Program will be selected by CME staff using criteria as further stated in Exhibit 1. 

Chapter 4 of the CME rules includes prohibitions against fraudulent, non-competitive, unfair or abusive practices. The 

Program is subject to these rules. 

CME certifies that the Program complies with the CEA and the regulations thereunder. There were no substantive 

opposing views to this Program.

The Exchange certifies that this submission has been concurrently posted on the Exchange’s website at 

http://www.cmegroup.com/market-regulation/rule-filings.html.

If you require any additional information regarding this submission, please e-mail 

CMEGSubmissionInquiry@cmegroup.com or contact Rachel Johnson at 312-466-4393 or via e-mail at 

Rachel.Johnson@cmegroup.com. Please reference our CME Submission No. 23-283 in any related correspondence.

Sincerely,

/s/ Christopher Bowen

Managing Director and Chief Regulatory Counsel 

Attachment: Exhibit 1
EXHIBIT 1

Lumber Futures Volume Incentive Program

Program Purpose

The purpose of this Program is to incentivize market participants to support the launch and development 

of the products below. The resulting increase in liquidity benefits all participant segments of the market.

Product Scope

Lumber Futures (“LBR”) and the inter-commodity spread between LBR and Random Length Lumber

Futures (“LB”) (“LBR-LB”) (“Products”).

Eligible Participants

There is no limit to the number of participants that may participate in the Program. Participants must be

CME members that are classified as proprietary trading firms.

Program Term

Start date is August 8, 2022. End date is July 31, 2023 January 31, 2024.

Hours

N/A

Incentives

Fee Waivers: Participants will receive fee waivers for all transactions in the Products executed on Globex

or cleared through CME ClearPort.

Fee Credits: Each month participants will be ranked by passive volume in Globex outrights and spreads 

in the Products. The top four (4) participants will receive fee credits of $2.50 per passive side traded in 

the Products after the first 500 passive sides are traded per month. Fee credits will apply to all volume 

beyond 500 passive sides traded per month. Fee credits will be capped at $3,000 per participant, per 

month.

Monitoring and Termination of Status

The Exchange shall monitor trading activity and participants’ performance and shall retain the right to 

revoke participant status if it concludes from review that a participant no longer meets the eligibility 

requirements of the Program.