Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§2495a Overseas Package Stores: Treatment of United States Wines
Title 10 › 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
Summary
The Secretary of Defense must ensure package stores (on‑base shops funded by sales) on U.S. military bases overseas give U.S. wines fair distribution, selection, and prices compared to host‑nation wines.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §2495a
Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
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 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102