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= National Association of Wine Retailers = The National Association of Wine Retailers (NAWR) is an American trade association representing wine retailers and associated businesses in the alcohol industry. Founded in 2006 as the Specialty Wine Retailers Association, NAWR's goals include overturning state-based laws baring interstate wine retailer shipping, modernizing state alcohol laws, and increasing consumers access to alcohol products. NAWR also works to impact U.S. tariff policy as well as preserve state primary source laws.

About
NAWR members include brick and mortar retailers, Internet retailers, wine clubs, wine auction houses and affiliated companies, all of which support the Association's goals of liberalizing interstate wine shipping laws. A 501(c)(6) not profit organization, NAWR is funded from member dues and member events. In addition to full Retail-Level memberships, NAWR offers Associate Retailer membership and Small Retailer membership levels. NAWR is governed by a Board of Directors that include Ben Aneff, Justin Hammer, John Hinman, Stacie Hunt, Dave Parker, Daniel Posner, Jamie Ritchie, Devin Warner, Jamie Wolff, and Jeff Zacharia. Tom Wark has served as Executive Director since 2007.

Dormant Commerce Clause Litigation
NAWR has initiated and supported a number of legal challenges to state laws barring wine shipments from out-of-state wine retailers. In 2006, NAWR sued the state of Texas in Wine Country Gift Baskets v Steen, claiming its ban on shipments from out-of-state retailers violated the Dorman Commerce Clause. NAWR has also filed an Amicus Brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas. Following the Supreme Court's ruling in Tennessee Wine, NAWR worked closely with attorney's Alex Tanford and Robert Epstein, challenging retailer interstate wine shipping bans in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island.

Other Initiatives
NAWR has helped pass and maintain wine shipping laws in Florida, New Hampshire, Oregon and Connecticut. It has also worked with the United States Wine Trade Alliance, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States and other alcohol trade associations in opposing U.S. tariffs imposed upon European wines during the Trump administration. NAWR has twice highlighted alcohol wholesaler campaign contributions in two reports: Wholesale Protection (2008) and Toward Liquor Domination (2011).