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

---
identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s2495a"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "10 USC § 2495a - Overseas package stores: treatment of United States wines"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "2495a"
section_name: "Overseas package stores: treatment of United States wines"
chapter_number: 147
chapter_name: "COMMISSARIES AND EXCHANGES AND OTHER MORALE, WELFARE, AND RECREATION ACTIVITIES"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "MORALE, WELFARE, AND RECREATION PROGRAMS AND NONAPPROPRIATED FUND INSTRUMENTALITIES"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title III, § 311(a)(1), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1073, § 2489; renumbered § 2495a, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(b)(2), (c)(5), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1971, 1972.)"
---


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

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.

---

**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title III, § 311(a)(1), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1073, § 2489; renumbered § 2495a, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(b)(2), (c)(5), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1971, 1972.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004— renumbered  as this section.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Regulations Deadline

, , , directed Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations to implement this section not later than 90 days after .