Veterinary Services Import/Export User Fees

Last Modified: January 17, 2025

Learn about Veterinary Services import/export user fees for, but not limited to, quarantine, facility use, permit processing, endorsing export certificates, inspections, and other services.

Code of Federal Regulations Part 130.1-130.7

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  • 9 CFR 130.3(b): Individual Animals and Certain Birds Quarantined in APHIS-Owned or Operated Quarantine Facilities, including APHIS Animal Import Centers; and Fee for Use of Animal Ramp
  • 9 CFR 130.3(c): Exclusive Use of Space at APHIS Animal Import Centers
  • 9 CFR 130.3(c): Pet Birds Quarantined at APHIS-Owned or Supervised Quarantine Facilities
  • 9 CFR 130.3: Processing Permit Applications
  • 9 CFR 130.3: Inspection of Live Animals at Land Border Ports Along the United States-Mexico border
  • 9 CFR 130.3(d): Import or Entry Services for Live Animals at Land Border Ports along the United States-Canada Border
  • 9 CFR 130.3(f): Endorse Export Certificates
  • 9 CFR 130.3: Other Services
  • 9 CFR 130.4: Inspecting and Approving Import/Export Facilities and Establishments
  • 9 CFR 130.4: Hourly Rate and Minimum User Fees

9 CFR § 130.3(b) —Individual Animals and Certain Birds Quarantined in APHIS-Owned or -Operated Quarantine Facilities, Including APHIS Animal Import Centers

Per Animal or Bird

Daily User Fee

Birds (excluding ratites and pet birds imported in accordance with Part 93 of this subchapter)

0–250 grams

$5.00

251–1,000 grams

10.00

Over 1,000 grams

30.00

Domestic or zoo animals (excepts equines, birds, and poultry)

Bison, bulls, camels, cattle, or zoo animals

341.00

All others, including, but not limited to, alpacas, llamas, goats, sheep, and swine

69.00

Equines (including zoo equines, but excluding miniature horses)

1st through 3rd day (fee per day)

586.00

4th through 7th day (fee per day)

196.00

8th through subsequent days (fee per day)

196.00

Miniature horses

204.00

Poultry (including zoo poultry)

Doves, pigeons, quail

9.25

Chickens, ducks, grouse, guinea fowl, partridge, pea fowl, pheasants

16.00

Large poultry and large waterfowl, including, but not limited to game cocks, geese, swans, and turkeys

51.00

Ratites

Chicks (less than 3 months old)

32.00

Juveniles (3 months through 10 months old)

47.00

Adults (11 months old and older)

91.00

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9 CFR § 130.3(b) — Bird or Poultry (nonstandard housing, care, or handling)

Per Bird or Poultry

Daily User Fee

Birds 0–250 grams and doves, pigeons and quail

$14.00

Birds 251–1,000 grams and poultry such as chickens, ducks, grouse, guinea fowl, partridge, pea fowl, and pheasants

28.00

Birds over 1,000 grams and large poultry and large winter fowl, including but not limited to gamecocks, geese, swans, and turkeys

51.00

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9 CFR § 130.3(c) — Exclusive Use of Space at APHIS Animal Import Centers

Animal Import Center

Monthly User Fee

Newburgh, NY
Space A—5,396 sq. ft (503.1 m2)

$104,369.00

Space B—8,903 sq. ft2  (827.1 m2)

172,201.00

Space C—905 sq. ft2  (84.1 m2)

17,504.00

Square Foot (f2); square meter (M2) 
User fees for any service rendered by an APHIS representative for each animal quarantined in a privately operated permanent or temporary import quarantine facility will be calculated at the hourly user fee rate listed in §130.4 for each employee required to perform the service.

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9 CFR § 130.3 —Processing Permit Applications

Service

Per Unit User Fee

Import compliance assistance

Simple (4 hours or less)Per shipment

$249.00

Complicated (more than 4 hours)Per shipment

762.00

Processing an application for a permit to import live animals, animal products or byproducts, organisms, vectors, or germplasm (embryos or semen) or to transport organisms or vectors 1

Initial permitPer application

303.00

Amended permitPer amended application

176.00

Renewed permit 2Per application

176.00

Processing an application for permit to import fetal bovine serum when facility inspection is requiredPer application

1,075.00

1 Using Veterinary Services Form 16-3, "Application for Permit to Import or Transport Controlled Material or Organism or Vectors," or Form 17-129, "Application for Import or in Transit Permits (Animals, Animal Semen, Animal Embryos, Birds, Poultry, or Hatching Eggs)"
2 Permits to import germplasm, and live animals are not renewable.

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9 CFR § 130.3 — Inspection of Live Animals at Land Border Ports Along the United States-Mexico Border

Type of Live Animal

Per Head User Fee

Any ruminants (including breeder ruminants) not covered below

$11.00

Feeder

8.25

Horses, other than slaughter

288.00

In-bond or in-transit

20.00

Slaughter

13.00

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9 CFR §130.3(d)— Import or Entry Services for Live Animals at Land Border Ports Along the United States-Canada Border

Type of Live Animal 

Per Unit User Fee

Animals being imported into the United States:  Breeding animals (Grade animals, except horses)

Sheep and goatsPer head

$2.25

SwinePer head

2.00

All othersPer head

17.00

Feeder animals

Cattle (not including calves)Per head

2.75

Sheep and calvesPer head

2.25

SwinePer head

0.50

Horses (including registered horses) other than slaughter and in-transitPer head

49.00

Poultry (including eggs), imported for any purposePer load

88.00

Registered animals, all types (except horses)Per head

11.00

Slaughter animals, all types (except poultry)Per load

79.00

Animals transiting1 the United States

CattlePer head

11.00

Sheep and goatsPer head

1.25

SwinePer head

1.75

Horses and all other animalsPer head

118.00

1 The user fee in this section will be charged for in-transit authorizations at the port where the authorization services are performed. For additional services provided by APHIS at any port, the hourly user fee in §130.3 will apply.

Minimum user fee for these services is listed in §130.4.

Reimbursable overtime, as provided for in part 97 of this chapter, applies if a service must be conducted on a Sunday or holiday or at any other time outside the normal tour of duty of each employee performing the service.
 

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9 CFR 130.3 — Other Services

Service

Per Unit User Fee

Germplasm being exported1

Embryo: Up to 5 donor pairsPer certificate

$163.00

Embryo: Each additional group of donor pairs, up to 5 pairs per group on the same certificatePer group of donor pairs

100.00

Embryo: SemenPer certificate

171.00

Release from export agricultural hold

Simple (2 hours or less)Per release

118.00

Complicated (more than 2 hours)Per release

601.00

1 This user fee includes a single inspection and resealing of the container at the APHIS employee's regular tour of duty station or at a limited port. For each subsequent inspection and resealing required, the hourly user fee in § 130.4 will apply.

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9 CFR § 130.3(c) — Pet Birds

User fees for pet birds of U.S. origin returning to the United States, except pet birds of U.S. origin returning from Canada:


Service

Pet Lot User Fee

(1) Which have been out of the United States 60 days or less

$362.00

(2) Which have been out of the United States for more than 60 days

938.00

These user fees include standard care, feed, and handling.

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9 CFR § 130.3(c) - Pet Birds Quarantine in an Animal Import Center or Other APHIS-Owned or Supervised Quarantine Facility

These user fees include standard care, feed, and handling.


Number of Birds in Isolate

Daily User Fee

1

$22.00

2

24.00

3

26.00

4

30.00

5 or more

32.00

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9 CFR § 130.4 — Inspecting and Approving Import/Export Facilities and Establishments

These user fees do not apply to inspection activities covered in § 130.4(a)(2)

Service

Per Unit User Fee

Embryo collection center inspection and approval (all inspections required during the year for facility approval).Per year$767.00
Inspection for approval of biosecurity level three labs (all inspections related to approving the laboratory for handling one defined set of organisms or vectors)1 Per inspection3,262.00

Inspection for approval of slaughter establishment

Initial approval (all inspections)Per year938.00
Renewal (all inspections)Per year703.00

Inspection of approved establishments, warehouses, and facilities under 9 CFR Part 94 through 96

Approval (compliance agreement) (all inspections for first year of 3-year approval)Per year747.00
Renewal (all inspections for second and third years of 3-year approval)Per year513.00
1 The hourly user fee rate in § 130.4 applies to biosecurity level two laboratories.

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9 CFR § 130.3(f) — Endorsing Export Certificates

Export health certificates may need to be endorsed for an animal being exported from the United States if the country to which the animal is being shipped requires one. APHIS endorses export health certificates as a service.
  
User fees for endorsement of export health certificates that do not require verification of tests or vaccinations below:


Certificate Categories

User Fee

Animal and non-animal products

$101.00

Hatching eggs

113.00

Poultry (including slaughter poultry)

113.00

Ruminants, except slaughter ruminants moving to Canada or Mexico

67.00

Slaughter animals (except poultry but including ruminants) moving to Canada or Mexico

70.00

Other endorsements or certifications

101.00

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9 CFR § 130.3(f)—User Fees for the Endorsement of Export Health Certificates that Require the Verification of Tests or Vaccinations


 Number1  of test or vaccinations and Number of animals or birds on the certificate

User Fee

1–2 tests or vaccinations

Nonslaughter horses to Canada, first horse

$100.00

Nonslaughter horses to Canada, each additional horse

58.00

Other animals or birds, first animal

160.00

Other animals or birds, each additional animal

10.00

3–6 tests or vaccinations

First animal

206.00

Each additional animal

18.00

7 or more tests or vaccinations

First animal

275.00

Each additional animal

21.00

1 Rabies vaccinations are not included in this number.

If an export certificate covers more than one animal, but the number of tests required for different animals are not the same, the user fee for the certificate is the fee which would be due if all the animals on the certificate required the same number of tests as the animal which requires the greatest number of tests.

The user fees prescribed in this section will not apply to an export health certificate if the export health certificate is prepared for endorsement completely at the site of the inspection by an APHIS veterinarian in the course of performing inspection or supervision services for the animals listed on the certificate.

If a service must be conducted on a Sunday or holiday or at any other time outside the normal tour of duty of the employee, then reimbursable overtime, as provided for in part 97 of this chapter, must be paid for each service, in addition to the user fee listed in this section.

The user fees apply to each export health certificate endorsed for animals and birds depending on the number of animals or birds covered by the certificate and the number of tests or vaccinations required. However, there will be a maximum user fee of 12 times the hourly rate user fee listed in § 130.4(a) of this part for any single shipment. 

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9 CFR § 130.4 — Hourly Rate and Minimum User Fees

User fees for import- or export-related veterinary services listed in 9 CFR 130.4(a)(1) through (a)(18), except those services covered by flat rate user fees elsewhere in part 130, will be calculated at the hourly rate listed in the following for each employee required to perform the service.

 

 

User Fee

Hourly rate

Per hour

$166.00

Per quarter hour

42.00

Per service minimum fee

51.00

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9 CFR § 130.4 —Overtime Hourly Rate

There is an additional charge if you need an APHIS employee to work on a Sunday, on a holiday, or at any time outside the normal tour of duty of the employee.  Instead of the hourly rate user fee, the rate listed below for each employee providing the service will be charged.

Overtime Rates (outside the employee's normal tour of duty)

User Fee

Premium hourly rate Monday through Saturday and holidays

Per hour

$196.00

Per quarter hour

49.00

Premium hourly rate for Sundays

Per hour

221.00

Per quarter hour

56.00

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