dairy import assessment fee
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has requested that Customs collect a fee for imported dairy products. The fee is required for shipments with a duty/fee computation date of 8/1/11 or later.Tariff numbers that are subject to the dairy fee have been updated with a new unit of measure CKG.This unit of measure will indicate the cow s milk solids content in kilograms.he dairy fee assessment will be calculated at 0.01327 per CKG. There are seven dairy tariff numbers that already use two reporting quantities for the calculation of duty. For these tariff numbers, the CKG unit of measure will be the third reporting quantity.