TTB Extends Comment Period on Proposal to Ease Restrictions on Brazil Rum Imports
The deadline for comments on the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau’s proposal to amend the rules on standards of identity for distilled spirits to include "Cachaça" as a type of rum and as a distinctive product of Brazil was extended to July 9, 2012, it said in a Federal Register notice.
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(In April, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Fernando Pimentel signed an exchange of letters launching a process to designate Cachaça as a distinctive product of Brazil, and by Brazil to designate Bourbon Whiskey and Tennessee Whiskey as distinctive products of the United States. See ITT’s Online Archives 12040924 for summary. See also ITT’s Online Archives 12042712 for summary of TTB’s request for comments on the proposal, and 12062221 for summary of the European Union’s request for more time to submit comments.)