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October 28, 2022

TTB Launches myTTB System for CBMA Foreign Producer Registrations

The Craft Beverage Modernization Act (CBMA) provisions of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code provide for reduced rates or tax credits for beer, wine, and distilled spirits produced in or imported into the United States. These CBMA tax benefits are limited in quantity for each producer, including foreign producers. Foreign producers utilize these CBMA tax benefits by assigning them to U.S. importers of their products. 

A change in the law transferred responsibility for administering the CBMA tax benefits for imported alcohol from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to TTB beginning with products entered for consumption in the United States on or after January 1, 2023.

Foreign producers may now register using the myTTB system and may then use the system to make assignments to importers for calendar year 2023. An owner, officer, employee, or an authorized agent of a foreign producer may submit the foreign producer registration and make assignments.

A user guide for the new system, which provides step-by-step instructions for the foreign producer registration and tax benefit assignment processes, is available at our CBMA Imports page at TTB.gov:

• Foreign Producer Registration and CBMA Tax Benefit Assignment myTTB System User Guide

We will provide information for importers submitting CBMA claims starting in 2023 at a later date.

Frequently Asked Question: When are Frozen Dessert Products Containing Spirits Regulated as Alcohol Beverages? 

Distilled spirits FAQ S15 describes the criterion we use to make case-by-case determinations on whether or not a frozen product, such as ice cream or ice pops, made with distilled spirits is a nonbeverage product or regulated as beverage alcohol. Evaluation criterion include:

• Alcohol content of the product
• Purpose served by the alcoholic ingredients in the product
• Whether other features of the product’s composition constrain its consumption as a beverage, and other relevant factors

For additional information read Distilled Spirits FAQ S15 on the Distilled Spirits FAQs page.

TTB Boot Camp for Distillers Webinar Series:  Labeling

We have now hosted three of the six modules of our online Boot Camp for Distillers webinar series. If you weren’t able to join the webinars, don’t worry! The slides from the presentations are available on our Presentations page and the recorded webinars will be posted soon on our Training page.

The third module in our online Boot Camp for Distillers webinar series, Labeling, is scheduled for Thursday, November 3, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET. Register now!  As always, there is no registration fee for TTB-hosted webinars.

We’re presenting our Boot Camp for Distillers series in 6 modules:

• TTB Basics & Permits – September 22 (view slides)
• Records, Reports, & Returns – October 6 (view slides)
• Formulas – (view slides)
• Labeling – November 3 (register now!)
• What to Expect in a Distilled Spirits Plant Product Integrity Investigation
• What to Expect in an Audit

We’ll post the schedule for the other modules on our TTB Outreach page as they are confirmed.

We hope that you will join us for the series!

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Upcoming TTB Outreach Activities

• November 3: TTB Boot Camp for Distillers Webinar: Labeling
• November 7-9: World Wine Trade Group Annual Meeting
• November 9-11: FIVS Santa Rosa Meetings

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