Made contacts to urge support for Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau regulations to permit alcohol producers to provide 
voluntarily to consumers factual information about the contents of their products and standard serving sizes.
Monitor for any legislation that would restrict beverage alcohol advertising. Made contacts to urge support for legislation to establish an incentive grant program for states to implement effective measures to prevent and reduce underage consumption of beverage alcohol and evaluate the effectiveness of current measures.
Monitor HR 4194, Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2007. Made contacts on Congressional trade agenda.
Made contacts on need for EU organic food regulations to be changed to recognize use of potassium bicarbonate as a fungicide.
Made contacts on Vietnamese spirits taxes.
Made contacts on Korean bottling restrictions. Monitor for legislation that would repeal or amend the 5010 Wine Credit.
HR 3970, Tax Reduction and Reform Act, 2007, monitor for any legislation that would change the tax treatment of inventories.
Monitor for any legislation that would increase alcohol excise taxes.
CSP - Consumer Issues/Safety/Products ALC - Alcohol and Drug Abuse TRD - Trade (domestic/foreign) TAX - Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
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