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TTB NEWSLETTER | Weekly News

July 2, 2021

IN THIS ISSUE

Greetings and happy Independence Day! This week we’re highlighting Treasury’s Report to Congress on the implementation of the CBMA import provisions that are effective in 2023, two new AVAs, and a new distilled spirits labeling guidance homepage.

TREASURY REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 2023 CBMA IMPORT PROVISIONS

The Craft Beverage Modernization Act (CBMA) provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reduced excise taxes on all beverage alcohol producers, large and small, foreign and domestic. In 2020, Congress made CBMA’s tax cuts permanent. It also transferred responsibility for administering certain CBMA provisions for imported alcohol from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to the Treasury Department after December 31, 2022. As required by law, Treasury submitted a report to Congress detailing its plans to implement and administer the new import provisions starting in 2023.

The report is available on our Plans and Reports page.

GOOSE GAP, ULUPALAKUA AMERICAN VITICULTURAL AREAS ESTABLISHED

On Thursday July 1, 2021, we published two final rule documents in the Federal Register, each establishing a new American viticultural area (AVA), or grape growing region.  We are issuing these regulations in response to petitions submitted on behalf of local vineyard owners and vintners.  TTB designates viticultural areas to allow vintners to better describe the origin of their wines and to allow consumers to better identify wines they may purchase.

Goose Gap:  TTB established the approximately 8,129-acre Goose Gap viticultural area in Benton County, Washington.  The Goose Gap AVA is located within the established Yakima Valley and Columbia Valley viticultural areas.  See Docket No. TTB–2020–0011 on Regulations.gov for all documents and public comments related to this rulemaking.

Ulupalakua:  TTB established the approximately 70-acre Ulupalakua viticultural area on the island of Maui, in Hawaii.  The Ulupalakua AVA is not located within any established viticultural area.  See Docket No. TTB–2020–0014 on Regulations.gov for all documents and public comments related to this rulemaking.

Bottlers who wish to label their wines with either of these new AVAs as appellations of origin must obtain a new Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) for the label, even if the currently approved label already contains another AVA appellation of origin.  Please do not submit COLA applications for labels using the new AVAs until August 2, 2021, the effective date of both final rules.

DISTILLED SPIRITS LABELING GUIDANCE PAGES

You asked and we listened - we’ve added a new distilled spirits labeling homepage to make it easy for you to find and access the information you need to know about distilled spirits labeling.

Key Distilled Spirits Labeling Topics

Here’s how we’ve organized the information so you can quickly scan the new page and find the topic you’re interested in:

• Getting Started with Distilled Spirits Labeling
• Mandatory Distilled Spirits Label Information
• Optional Distilled Spirits Label Information
• Applying for Label Approval
• Laws, Regulations, and Other TTB Guidance
• Related Information

We also created handy reference materials, including a Mandatory Information Checklist and the Anatomy of a Distilled Spirits Label interactive tool.

Visit the new distilled spirits labeling homepage and bookmark it today!

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