Although physical delivery is an important mechanism for certain energy, metals and agriculture products, only a small
percent of all commodities futures contracts are physically delivered.
Each
contract market Member shall pay to NFA an assessment calculated on the basis
of $.005 for each round - turn transaction in a
commodity futures contract (purchase and sale or sale and purchase) executed on the
contract market, except that in any NFA fiscal year, the total
of such assessments paid by a
contract market Member that had transaction volume
of more than 20
percent of aggregate
contract market transaction volume during that fiscal year shall not be more than $ 150,000 and the total
of such assessments paid by a
contract market Members that had transaction volume
of 20
percent or less
of aggregate
contract market transaction volume during that fiscal year shall not be more than $ 100,000.