# Importer Permit Requirements for Tobacco Products and Processed Tobacco, and Other Requirements for Tobacco Products, Processed Tobacco, and Cigarette Papers and Tubes
> **TTB** · Temporary rule; Treasury decision. · Published 2013-06-27 · Effective 2013-08-26 · 78 FR 38555
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-15254
- **Category:** tobacco-ttb
- **Sub-agency:** TTB
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 38555
- **CFR reference:** 27 CFR 40
- **Publication date:** 2013-06-27
- **Effective date:** 2013-08-26
- **Treasury docket:** Docket No. TTB-2013-0006
## Abstract

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 regulatory provisions through a notice of proposed rulemaking published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/06/27/2013-15254/importer-permit-requirements-for-tobacco-products-and-processed-tobacco-and-other-requirements-for)
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