East InpIan AND PHILIPPINE TOBACCO 
The Dutch East Indies (Sumatra and the 
adjacent islands) produce yearly about 180 
million Ibs. of tobacco, all of which is used in 
the cigar business. Of this the United States 
takes about from 30,000 to 40,000 bales of 
Sumatran leaf, about 514 million Ibs. About 
2 Ibs. of this leaf wraps 1,000 cigars. 
The Philippine Islands produce from 50 to 
100 million lbs, of tobacco annually. The crop 
for 1918 was 101,544,736 lbs. The imports 
into the United States are principally as manu- 
factured cigars by special arrangements which 
will be referred to later on in the chapter on 
cigars. 
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