ge.bev-cuvee.org · AS OF 2026-11-10
Georgia
The business-to-business (B2B) hub for beverage alcohol: the trade rulebook for beverage alcohol, country by country, each section with its official sources.
As of 2026-11-10
Market status
Open — private beverage-alcohol trade operates under food-business registration, product conformity and tax controls. Wine and wine-origin beverages have additional certification requirements. The verified framework permits commercial imports subject to these conditions. The complete category-by-category alcohol licensing position beyond the requirements below: Not yet sourced.
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Who can trade
Import, wholesale and distribution: Register the relevant food-business activity in the registry of economic activities. Activity without registration is prohibited. For products within the Law on Vine and Wine, imports must be ready for direct consumption, in consumer packaging and not require further processing. Sellers of bottled wine and beverages of wine origin on the domestic market must hold conformity certificates. Apply the customs and excise requirements separately.
Business-to-business (B2B) online sale: Specific alcohol-platform, brokerage, electronic contracting and wholesale delivery permissions: Not yet sourced. General food-business registration is not evidence that every proposed online trading model is authorised. Separate beer, cider and non-wine spirit import or wholesale licence conditions: Not yet sourced.
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Customs and duty
Classification: Heading 2203 covers malt beer, 2204 grape wine, 2206 cider and other fermented beverages, and 2208 spirits. Georgian import duty and excise are separate national charges. Article 197 provides specific import duties for wine and other fermented drinks by volume, and for listed spirits using an alcohol-related basis. The exact beer import-duty treatment and origin-specific preferential rates: Not yet sourced.
Excise: Beer uses litres multiplied by alcoholic strength. Other fermented drinks have strength-based categories, while high-strength ethanol beverages use litres of pure alcohol and differentiated product groups. Wine must be tested against the statutory definition rather than treated as an interchangeable fermented drink. Exact wine exemptions and shipment-specific payable amounts: Not yet sourced. Taxable imports also attract value added tax. Excise marking applies to covered alcoholic beverages, subject to statutory exceptions.
Territorial treatment: Special customs treatment for occupied territories, free industrial zones and bonded movements: Not yet sourced.
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Labelling
For beverages governed by the Law on Vine and Wine, the mandatory particulars include the product name, nominal volume, actual alcohol content, country of production, producer and relevant distributor or importer details. Protected-origin or geographical-indication products require the corresponding designation and protected-status wording. Required textual particulars must be in Georgian, or Georgian alongside another language. Brandy has age or ageing-category particulars.
The general food-safety framework also applies. The detailed allergen declarations, mandatory health-warning wording, beer and cider label rules, and the full current wine-label checklist beyond the particulars above: Not yet sourced. Future provisions shown in the legislation must not be treated as already effective.
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Age and sale limits
Sale to people under 18 is prohibited. Trade and catering premises must display information prohibiting alcohol sales to minors. Nationwide wholesale hours, retail-hour variations, alcohol delivery hours, vending restrictions and local channel conditions: Not yet sourced. The minor-sale prohibition remains distinct from whether a recipient business is authorised to trade.
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Protected names
The National Intellectual Property Center maintains the Georgian register of appellations of origin. Wine examples include Khvanchkara, Mukuzani, Tsinandali, Kindzmarauli and Kakheti. These are protected geographical names, not generic descriptions of any wine made from the same grape. The complete foreign-name protection and agreement-by-agreement recognition position: Not yet sourced. Examples are not exhaustive.
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GTIN authority
GS1 Georgia is the national GS1 member organisation for obtaining Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) and the associated GS1 identification capacity.
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Not yet sourced
Not yet sourced: Complete beer, cider and non-wine-spirit import/wholesale licensing; B2B online platform and delivery permissions; beer import duty and origin-specific preferences; exact wine excise treatment and shipment-specific charges; occupied-territory, free-zone and bonded rules; allergens, health warnings and remaining product-specific labels; national/local trading hours and channel limits; complete foreign protected-name recognition.
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