Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
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.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau the way a machine reads it — 25 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau scores 27.0/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 3
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Excise Tax Data
Annual and monthly federal excise tax collections broken down by alcohol and tobacco commodity type and by state.
COLA Registry
Public searchable database of all approved Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) records for wine, spirits, and malt beverages.
Permit Holder Data
Open data on federal basic permit holders including producers, importers, wholesalers, and retailers of alcohol beverages.
Socrata SODA API
TTB datasets are published on the Socrata platform, accessible via the standard Socrata Open Data API (SODA) with JSON and CSV output.
Statistical Reports
Annual statistical reports on alcohol and tobacco tax collections, industry production volumes, and commodity statistics.
eFOIA Portal
Electronic Freedom of Information Act (eFOIA) request submission and tracking for TTB records not available through open data.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
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.
Integrations 6
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
api.data.gov
TTB datasets are accessible through api.data.gov, the government-wide API management platform hosted by GSA.
Data.gov Catalog
TTB open datasets are cataloged on data.gov, the federal open data portal managed by GSA.
Socrata Open Data Platform
TTB uses the Socrata platform (data.ttb.gov) to publish and provide API access to regulatory datasets.
IRS
TTB coordinates with the Internal Revenue Service on excise tax administration and data sharing.
CBP (US Customs)
TTB coordinates with U.S. Customs and Border Protection on alcohol and tobacco import regulation and taxation.
ATF
TTB works with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on shared jurisdiction over alcohol and tobacco regulation.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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