Implementing PATRIOT Act Improvements: Contraband Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ("ATF") is amending Department of Justice ("Department") regulations to implement certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and...
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