# Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/alcohol-and-tobacco-tax-and-trade-bureau/  
**Website:** https://www.ttb.gov  
**APIs profiled:** 3

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), statutorily named the Tax and Trade Bureau, is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury. TTB regulates and collects federal excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and ammunition. The bureau enforces Federal laws and regulations related to alcohol and tobacco products, issues permits for producers, importers, and wholesalers, approves label applications for alcohol beverages, and provides open data on tax collections, permit holders, and approved product labels. TTB administers approximately $20 billion in annual federal excise tax collections from the alcohol and tobacco industries.

## Kin Score — 14.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 14.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 18.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **TTB Open Data API** — The TTB Open Data API provides programmatic access to TTB statistical and regulatory datasets via the Socrata Open Data API (SODA). Available datasets include alcohol beverage t...
- **TTB COLA Registry** — The TTB Public COLA (Certificate of Label Approval) Registry provides access to approved alcohol beverage labels. Users and industry members can search for approved labels by pr...
- **TTB Permits Online** — TTB Permits Online is the electronic portal for applying for and managing federal basic permits, brewer's notices, distilled spirits plant permits, and tobacco permits. The syst...

## Security (1)

- **Alcohol And Tobacco Tax And Trade Bureau Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Alcohol And Tobacco Tax And Trade Bureau Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Alcohol Industry Compliance Research** — Producers, importers, and retailers use TTB permit and label data to verify compliance status and competitive market intelligence.
- **Tax Revenue Analysis** — Policy researchers and economists analyze TTB excise tax collection data to study alcohol and tobacco market trends.
- **Label Approval Tracking** — Alcohol beverage companies track COLA approval status and research competitor label approvals in the public registry.
- **Market Research** — Industry analysts use production volume statistics and permit holder counts to assess market size and industry structure.
- **Academic Research** — Public health researchers use TTB consumption proxy data (tax collection volumes) to study alcohol consumption patterns.
- **Journalism and FOIA Research** — Journalists and public interest groups use TTB open data and FOIA to investigate regulatory compliance and enforcement actions.

## Tags

Alcohol, Tobacco, Federal-Government, Excise Tax, Regulations, Treasury

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/alcohol-and-tobacco-tax-and-trade-bureau/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.