Implementing PATRIOT Act Improvements: Contraband Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco

What it does

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ("ATF") is amending Department of Justice ("Department") regulations to implement certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 ("PATRIOT Improvement Act") 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 quantity in excess of 60,000 to a quantity in excess of 10,000; extending the provisions of the CCTA to cover contraband smokeless tobacco; expanding record-keeping requirements; and imposing reporting requirements.

The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

27 CFR 646

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau has published 12 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 0 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1140-AA31 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This final rule is effective June 8, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 27 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register