ATF Issues Final Rule for Implementing PATRIOT Act Improvements: Contraband Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco
May 13, 2026
May 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, May 13 (TNSFR) -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is amending Department of Justice regulations to implement certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 relating to trafficking in contraband cigarettes or smokeless tobacco. This act amended the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act (CCTA) by, among other things, reducing the threshold amount of cigarettes necessary to trigger jurisdiction under the CCTA from a quanti . . .