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Start by previewing the New Application Wizard
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Then select all applicable new commodity operations applications:
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See also what to gather before you apply.
New Application Wizard, Original Entity, and Personnel Questionnaire
| New Application Wizard | The New Applications Wizard guides you by asking a series of questions, and depending on your answers creates an application package, which is a list of the applications you're required to submit. Everyone who applies for a new TTB permit, registration, or notice must complete the questions in the New Application Wizard. |
| Application for Original Entity | When applying to start a new TTB-regulated business, your application package will contain both an application for original entity and a new commodity operations application (one for each permit, registration, or notice you need). |
| Personnel Questionnaire | The Personnel Questionnaire is how TTB gathers background information about owners, officers, and others associated with TTB-regulated businesses. |
New Commodity Operations Applications — Alcohol Importer/Wholesaler
| File this application if you intend to: | |
| Alcohol Importer | import distilled spirits, wine, or beer/malt beverages into the United States |
| Alcohol Wholesaler | purchase distilled spirits, wine, or beer/malt beverages and resell them to alcohol beverage retailers and others, including via export |
New Commodity Operations Applications — Beer
| File this application if you intend to: | |
| Brewery - Brewpub | produce beer/malt beverages, or operate a tavern/brewpub on brewery premises |
New Commodity Operations Applications — Distilled Spirits
| File this application if you intend to: | |
| Alcohol Fuel Plant | produce, process, store, and use or distribute distilled spirits to be used exclusively for fuel |
| Distilled Spirits Plant | establish a beverage and/or industrial distilled spirits plant. Beverage – The proprietor of a beverage distilled spirits plant may distill, rectify or blend, bottle, or warehouse and bottle spirits for beverage use. Examples of beverage distilled spirits include neutral spirits or alcohol (i.e. vodka or grain spirits), whiskey, gin, brandy, blended applejack, rum, cordials, and liqueurs. Industrial – The proprietor of an industrial distilled spirits plant may manufacture articles (products containing denatured spirits), denature spirits, or distill, bottle or package, or warehouse spirits for industrial use. A vinegar plant is a type of industrial distilled spirits plant authorized to manufacture vinegar by the vaporizing process. |
| Specially Denatured Spirits - Dealer | withdraw and deal in specially denatured spirits for resale to persons authorized to purchase or receive specially denatured spirits |
| Specially Denatured Spirits - User | withdraw and use, or recover specially denatured spirits |
| Tax - Free Alcohol | withdraw and use tax-free alcohol. Certain types of organizations (such as scientific universities, colleges of learning, certain other educational institutions, laboratories, hospitals, blood banks, sanitariums, clinics operated for charity) may procure and use tax-free alcohol for authorized nonbeverage purposes (such as scientific research and medicinal uses). Under this permit you are NOT permitted to use tax-free alcohol in the manufacture of any product for sale, or sell any products resulting from the use of tax-free alcohol. |
| U.S. Government Specially Denatured Spirits - User | apply for a permit to authorize an agency of the United States government to obtain and use specially denatured spirits |
| U.S. Government Tax Free Alcohol - User | apply for a permit to authorize an agency of the United States government to obtain and use tax-free spirits for nonbeverage purposes. Tax-free alcohol may be used for scientific, medicinal, and mechanical purposes, and in the treatment of patient |
New Commodity Operations Applications — Wine
| File this application if you intend to: | |
| Bonded Winery – Full Operations | produce, blend, and store wine |
| Bonded Winery - Under 7 percent Alcohol Only | produce, blend, and store ONLY wine, including cider, that has less than 7% alcohol by volume |
| Bonded Wine Cellar - Blender | blend, store, and bottle wine. You are NOT permitted to produce wine under this permit |
| Bonded Wine Cellar - Storage Only | store, and/or bottle wine but WILL NOT blend wine. You are NOT permitted to produce wine under this permit |
| Taxpaid Wine Bottling House | receive taxpaid wine and bottle it. You are NOT permitted to produce wine under this permit |
New Commodity Operations Applications — Tobacco
| File this application if you intend to: | |
| Importer of Tobacco Products - Processed Tobacco | import cigars, cigarettes, snuff, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, or processed tobacco |
| Manufacturer of Processed Tobacco | manufacture processed tobacco |
| Manufacturer of Tobacco Products | manufacture cigars, cigarettes, snuff, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, or roll-your-own tobacco |
| Tobacco Export Warehouse | operate a bonded internal revenue warehouse for the storage of tobacco products, cigarette papers or tubes, and/or processed tobacco, upon which the internal revenue tax has not been paid, and which will be consumed outside of the United States or exported |
Firearms and Ammunition
| File this application if you need to: | |
| Firearms and Ammunition Tax - Free Registration | obtain a Certificate of Registry to sell or purchase firearms or ammunition tax-free |
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