On a Federal Register notice to be published August 1, 2013, the Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) announced that for the 2014 tariff-rate quota (TQR), a fee of $200 will be assessed for each license issued for the importation of certain dairy articles subject to tariff-rate quotas.

The notice explains that "the regulation at 7 CFR 6.33(a) provides that a fee will be charged for each license issued to a person or firm by the Licensing Authority in order to defray the Department of Agriculture’s costs of administering the licensing system under this regulation."

Dairy licenses for the importation of certain goods are issued on a yearly basis, and it allows for the importation of a specific product and quantity for a specific country of origin.

The Federal Register notice is available online here.