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Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)

In compliance with a Presidential Executive Order, the TTB has announced plans to shift all transactions involvement payments to electronic means. This will most immediately affect payments from TTB to industry members (very common in non-brewing contexts, such as “drawback” …Read More

Dietary Guidelines

Dietary Guidelines

The Brewers Association expects the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans sometime in July. Final content of the revised Guidelines remains unknown, but multiple reports suggest that they will advocate that …Read More

TTB Announces Tax Simplification Pilot Program for Brewers

TTB Announces Tax Simplification Pilot Program for Brewers

In early May, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) announced they are expanding their pilot program to test new streamlined tax forms for breweries. Based on feedback they received to make tax filing easier they created the …Read More

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

In May, the FDA extended the comment deadline for its front-of-label packaging rule to July 15, 2025. The rule would require new disclosures on the front of food labels and would apply to alcohol beverages outside of TTB’s labeling jurisdiction …Read More

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The Brewers Association is pleased to report that brewers with approved Rural Electrification for American Program (REAP) grants have received payments. Earlier this year these funds were frozen by Presidential executive order. Read More

Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Dietary Guidelines for Americans

While the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has yet to publish the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, major changes are afoot. In May the Secretaries of Agriculture and HHS (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) announced plans to pare down …Read More

Budget Reconciliation Legislation

Budget Reconciliation Legislation

The U.S. Senate will return on Monday, June 2, to resume consideration of H.R. 1, the budget reconciliation legislation. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the legislation by a narrow margin on May 22. H.R. 1 in the current form contains …Read More

CHEERS Act

CHEERS Act

With bipartisan and bicameral support, Representatives Darin LaHood (R-IL-16), Steven Horsford (D-NV-04), Suzan DelBene (D-WA-01) and Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24) alongside Senators Tim Sheehy (R-MT) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), introduced earlier this month H.R.3325/S.1732, the Creating Hospitality Economic Enhancement for Restaurants …Read More

Credit Card Competition Act

Credit Card Competition Act

This month, Senators Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) offered the previously introduced Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) as an amendment to the financial services-related GENIUS Act which is up for consideration in the Senate, potentially in early June. The …Read More

Tarrifs

Tarrifs

Brewers continue to face supply chain uncertainty stemming from actual and threatened tariffs. On May 23, the President announced a 50% tariff on all goods coming from the European Union (EU), initially announced to start on June 1. The new …Read More

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