---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2495a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2495a"
heading: "Overseas package stores: treatment of United States wines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2495a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 147 — Commissaries and Exchanges and Other Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Activities"
  - "Subchapter III — Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Programs and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities"
---

# §2495a. Overseas package stores: treatment of United States wines


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall ensure that each nonappropriated-fund activity engaged principally in selling alcoholic beverage products in a packaged form (commonly referred to as a “package store”) that is located at a [military installation](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-4) outside the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) shall give appropriate treatment with respect to wines produced in the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) to ensure that such wines are given, in general, an equitable distribution, selection, and price when compared with wines produced by the host nation.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title III, § 311(a)(1), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1073, § 2489; renumbered § 2495a, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(b)(2), (c)(5), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1971, 1972.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Pub. L. 108–375 renumbered section 2489 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Regulations Deadline

Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title III, § 311(b), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1073, directed Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations to implement this section not later than 90 days after Dec. 4, 1987.