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T.D. TTB-115: Importer Permit Requirements for Tobacco Products and Processed Tobacco, and Other Requirements for Tobacco Products, Processed Tobacco, and Cigarette Papers and Tubes
Document ID: TTB-2013-0006-0001
Document Type: Rule
Agency: Alcohol And Tobacco Tax And Trade Bureau
Topics: Aircraft, Armed Forces, Cigars and Cigarettes, Claims, Customs Duties and Inspection, Electronic Fund Transfers, Excise Taxes, Exports, Imports, Labeling, Packaging and Containers, Puerto Rico, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements, Surety Bonds, Tobacco, Vessels, Virgin Islands, Warehouses
This temporary rule amends the regulations of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) pertaining to permits for importers of tobacco products and processed tobacco by extending the duration of new permits from three years to five years. Based on its experience in the administration and enforcement of importer permits over the past decade, TTB believes that it can gain administrative efficiencies and reduce the burden on industry members, while still meeting the purposes of the limited-duration permit, by extending the permit duration to five years. This temporary rule also makes several technical corrections by amending the definition of “Manufacturer of tobacco products” to reflect a recent statutory change, and by amending a reference to the sale price of large cigars to incorporate a clarification published in a prior TTB temporary rule. Finally, this temporary rule incorporates and reissues TTB regulations pertaining to importer permit requirements for tobacco products, and minimum manufacturing and marking requirements for tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes, and, as a result, these temporary regulations replace temporary regulations originally published in 1999. TTB is soliciting comments from all interested parties on these temporary regulations through a concurrent notice of proposed rulemaking -- see Notice No. 137 posted within this docket or as published in the Federal Register of June 27, 2013. Comments should be made through Notice No. 137 by August 26, 2013.
T.D. TTB-115: Importer Permit Requirements for Tobacco Products and Processed Tobacco, and Other Requirements for Tobacco Products, Processed Tobacco, and Cigarette Papers and Tubes
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