Tobacco Smuggling Eradication Act of 2002
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Requires a tobacco wholesaler to have a permit and to maintain certain records.
Requires export warehouse proprietors to file certain reports with the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into certain tobacco related information agreements with foreign countries.
Establishes new offenses relating to the distribution of tobacco.
Raises the $1,000 civil penalty under chapter 52 to $10,000.
Amends the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act to: (1) expand the applicability of such Act from cigarettes only to "tobacco product" (cigars, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and pipe tobacco); (2) define "contraband tobacco product" as a quantity of tobacco product that is equivalent to or more than 30,000 cigarettes (currently, 60,000) which bear no evidence of the payment of applicable State tobacco taxes; (3) establish new unlawful acts; and (4) require additional recordkeeping.
Repeals Federal law provisions concerning reports required to State tobacco tax administrators by individuals engaged in interstate cigarette commerce.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5264: Tobacco Smuggling Eradication Act of 2002. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-5264/
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