Implementing PATRIOT Act Improvements: Contraband Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco

Document 2026-09160 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Justice in the Federal Register on May 8, 2026, with an effective date of June 8, 2026. 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. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/08/2026-09160/implementing-patriot-act-improvements-contraband-cigarettes-and-smokeless-tobacco.

No. Document 2026-09160 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.