Title 10Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

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

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › Chapter CHAPTER 147— - COMMISSARIES AND EXCHANGES AND OTHER MORALE, WELFARE, AND RECREATION ACTIVITIES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - MORALE, WELFARE, AND RECREATION PROGRAMS AND NONAPPROPRIATED FUND INSTRUMENTALITIES › § 2495a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require the Defense Secretary to ensure package stores on overseas military bases treat U.S. wines fairly in distribution, selection, and price compared with host‑nation wines.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2495a

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The Secretary 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 outside the United States shall give appropriate treatment with respect to wines produced in the United States to ensure that such wines are given, in general, an equitable distribution, selection, and price when compared with wines produced by the host nation.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2495a

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73