---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2802"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2802"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2802"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Wine Trade"
---

# §2802. Definitions


For purposes of this chapter—

- (1) The term “Committees” means the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate.
- (2) The term “grape product” means grapes and any product (other than [wine](#7)) made from grapes, including, but not limited to, raisins and grape juice, whether or not concentrated.
- (3) The term “major wine trading country” means any foreign [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3), or group of foreign [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3), designated as such under [section 2803 of this title](/usc/19/2803.md).
- (4) The phrase “nontariff barrier to (or other distortion of)”, in the context of trade in [United States wine](#6), includes any measure implemented by the government of a [major wine trading country](#3) that either gives a competitive advantage to the [wine](#7) [industry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=4-A) of that [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) or restricts the importation of [United States wine](#6) into that [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3).
- (5) The term “Trade Representative” means the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) Trade Representative.
- (6) The term “United States wine” means [wine](#7) produced within the customs territory of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9).
- (7) The term “wine” means any fermented alcoholic beverage that—
  - (A) is made from grapes or other fruit;
  - (B) contains not less than 0.5 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 24 percent alcohol by volume, including all dilutions and mixtures thereof by whatever process produced; and
  - (C) is for nonindustrial use.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–573, title IX, § 903, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3048.)