Economic Adjustment Assistance for Textile Mills-Payment Rate

What it does

The Economic Adjustment Assistance for Textile Mills (EAATM) program provides qualified domestic users of upland cotton financial assistance that can be used to acquire, construct, install, modernize, develop, convert, or expand land, plant, buildings, equipment, facilities, or machinery used in the manufacture of final cotton products. Under the program, the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) makes payments to eligible domestic users who have entered into an Upland Cotton Domestic User Agreement with AMS to participate in the EAATM. In this final rule, AMS is revising the payment rate from three cents per pound to five cents per pound, applicable August 1, 2025, as provided for in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).

The Agricultural Marketing Service's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

7 CFR 870

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Agricultural Marketing Service has published 22 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 22 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0581-AE48 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Effective: This final rule is effective February 24, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 7 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register