[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1230.71]

[Page 216-217]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XI--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND 
      ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1230_PORK PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND CONSUMER INFORMATION--Table of 
 
   Subpart A_Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Order
 
Sec.  1230.71  Assessments.

    (a)(1) Each producer producing in the United States a porcine animal 
raised as a feeder pig that is sold shall pay an assessment on that 
animal, unless such producer demonstrates to the Board by appropriate 
documentation that an assessment was previously paid on that animal as a 
feeder pig.
    (2) Each producer producing in the United States a porcine animal 
raised for slaughter that is sold shall pay an assessment on that 
animal, unless such producer demonstrates to the Board by appropriate 
documentation that an assessment was previously paid on that animal as a 
market hog.
    (3) Each producer producing in the United States a porcine animal 
raised for slaughter that such producer slaughters for sale shall pay an 
assessment on that animal unless such producer demonstrates to the Board 
by appropriate documentation that an assessment was previously paid on 
that animal as a market hog.
    (4) Each producer producing in the United States a porcine animal 
raised for breeding stock that is sold shall pay an assessment on that 
animal, unless such producer demonstrates to the Board by appropriate 
documentation that an assessment was previously paid

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by a person on that animal as breeding stock.
    (5) Each importer importing a porcine animal, pork, or pork product 
into the United States shall pay an assessment on that porcine animal, 
pork, or pork product, unless such importer demonstrates to the Board by 
appropriate documentation that an assessment was previously paid for 
that porcine animal, pork, or pork product.
    (b)(1) Each purchaser of a porcine animal raised by a producer as a 
feeder pig or market hog shall collect an assessment on such porcine 
animal if an assessment is due pursuant to paragraph (a) of this 
section, and shall remit that assessment to the Board. For the purposes 
of collection and remittance of assessments, any person engaged as a 
commission merchant, auction market, or livestock market in the business 
of receiving such porcine animals for sale on commission for or on 
behalf of a producer shall be deemed to be a purchaser.
    (2) Assessments on porcine animals raised as breeding stock which 
are sold by a commission merchant, auction, market, or livestock market 
in the business of receiving such porcine animals for sale on commission 
for or on behalf of a producer shall be collected and remitted by the 
commission merchant, auction market, or livestock market selling such 
porcine animals.
    (3) Each producer of porcine animals slaughtered for sale by the 
producer or sold directly to a consumer in connection with a custom 
slaughter operation shall remit an assessment to the Board if an 
assessment is due pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section.
    (4) Assessments on domestic porcine animals shall be remitted in the 
form of a negotiable instrument made payable to the ``National Pork 
Board,'' which, together with the reports required by Sec.  1230.80, 
shall be sent to the address designated by the Board.
    (5) Each importer of a porcine animal, pork, or pork product shall 
remit an assessment to the Customs Service at the time such porcine 
animal, pork, or pork product is imported or in such manner as may be 
established by regulations prescribed by the Board and approved by the 
Secretary, if an assessment is due pursuant to paragraph (a) of this 
section.
    (c) The initial rate of assessment shall be 0.25 percent of market 
value.
    (d) The rate of assessment may, upon the recommendation of the 
Delegate Body, be increased by regulations prescribed by the Board and 
approved by the Secretary by no more than 0.1 percent of such market 
value per fiscal period to a total of not more than 0.5 percent of 
market value.
    (e) Assessments on imported pork and pork products shall be 
expressed in an amount per pound for each type of pork or pork product 
subject to assessment, which shall be established by regulations 
prescribed by the Board and approved by the Secretary.

[51 FR 31903, Sept. 5, 1986; 51 FR 36383, Oct. 10, 1986; 53 FR 1910, 
Jan. 25, 1988; 53 FR 30245, Aug. 11, 1988; 56 FR 6, Jan. 2, 1991]