---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 70.421"
title: "27"
number: "70.421"
heading: "Alcohol dealer registration."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/70.421"
---

# §70.421. Alcohol dealer registration.


Every person who sells, or offers for sale, any alcohol product (distilled spirits, wines, or beer) fit for beverage use must register with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. The specific requirements are contained in the following regulations:

- (a) For proprietors of distilled spirits plants, parts [19](/cfr/27/part19.md) and [31](/cfr/27/part31.md) of this chapter;
- (b) For bonded wineries, bonded wine cellars, bonded wine warehouses, and taxpaid wine bottling houses, parts [24](/cfr/27/part24.md) and [31](/cfr/27/part31.md) of this chapter;
- (c) For brewers, parts [25](/cfr/27/part25.md) and [31](/cfr/27/part31.md) of this chapter;
- (d) For persons bringing distilled spirits, wines, or beer from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to the United States, parts [26](/cfr/27/part26.md) and [31](/cfr/27/part31.md) of this chapter;
- (e) For importers of distilled spirits, wines, or beer, parts [27](/cfr/27/part27.md) and [31](/cfr/27/part31.md) of this chapter; and
- (f) **For wholesalers and retailers of distilled spirits, wines, or beer, part 31 of this chapter.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. TTB-79, 74 FR 37424, July 28, 2009]

### Source

Source: T.D. ATF-251, 52 FR 19325, May 22, 1987, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated by T.D. ATF-301, 55 FR 47653, Nov. 14, 1990.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301 and 552; 26 U.S.C. 4181, 4182, 5123, 5203, 5207, 5275, 5367, 5415, 5504, 5555, 5684(a), 5741, 5761(b), 5802, 6020, 6021, 6064, 6102, 6109, 6155, 6159, 6201, 6203, 6204, 6301, 6303, 6311, 6313, 6314, 6321, 6323, 6325, 6326, 6331-6343, 6401-6404, 6407, 6416, 6423, 6501-6503, 6511, 6513, 6514, 6532, 6601, 6602, 6611, 6621, 6622, 6651, 6653, 6656-6658, 6665, 6671, 6672, 6701, 6723, 6801, 6862, 6863, 6901, 7011, 7101, 7102, 7121, 7122, 7207, 7209, 7214, 7304, 7401, 7403, 7406, 7423, 7424, 7425, 7426, 7429, 7430, 7432, 7502, 7503, 7505, 7506, 7513, 7601-7606, 7608-7610, 7622, 7623, 7653, 7805.

### Source

Source: T.D. ATF-6, 38 FR 32445, Nov. 26, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[T.D. TTB-79, 74 FR 37424, July 28, 2009]