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Title 27: Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms
PART 11—CONSIGNMENT SALES
Subpart D—Rules for the Return of Distilled Spirits, Wine, and Malt Beverages
Products which are unmarketable because of product deterioration, leaking containers, damaged labels or missing or mutilated tamper evident closures may be exchanged for an equal quantity of identical products or may be returned for cash or credit against outstanding indebtedness.
[T.D. ATF-364, 60 FR 20427, Apr. 26, 1995]
Any discrepancy between products ordered and products delivered may be corrected, within a reasonable period after delivery, by exchange of the products delivered for those which were ordered, or by a return for cash or credit against outstanding indebtedness.
Products which may no longer be lawfully sold may be returned for cash or credit against outstanding indebtedness. This would include situations where, due to a change in regulation or administrative procedure over which the trade buyer or an affiliate of the trade buyer has no control, a particular size or brand is no longer permitted to be sold.
[T.D. ATF-364, 60 FR 20428, Apr. 26, 1995]
Products on hand at the time a trade buyer terminates operations may be returned for cash or credit against outstanding indebtedness. This does not include a temporary seasonal shutdown (see §11.39).
[T.D. ATF-364, 60 FR 20428, Apr. 26, 1995]
When an industry member has sold products for cash or credit to one of its wholesalers and the distributorship arrangement is subsequently terminated, stocks of the product on hand may be returned for cash or credit against outstanding indebtedness.
A trade buyer's inventory of a product which has been changed in formula, proof, label or container (subject to §11.46) may be exchanged for equal quantities of the new version of that product.
When a producer or importer discontinues the production or importation of a product, a trade buyer's inventory of that product may be returned for cash or credit against outstanding indebtedness.
Industry members may accept the return of products from retail dealers who are only open a portion of the year, if the products are likely to spoil during the off season. These returns will be for cash or for credit against outstanding indebtedness.