AMERICAN TOBACCO TYPES, USES, AND MARKETS 99 
Of the types of tobacco that enter into the domestic export trade, 
fire-cured probably led in production and exports during the nineteenth 
century and until about 1918. At about that time world consumption 
of cigarettes was making an extraordinary expansion. As a result, 
flue-cured tobacco increased rapidly in production and exports, 
whereas fire-cured entered into a decline that has continued almost 
without interruption to the present time. 
Since 1923 statistics of tobacco exports, compiled and published 
by the United States Department of Commerce, have been segregated 
on the basis of types. In table 29 the exports by types and total leaf 
exports are shown for the years 1923 to 1939, inclusive, and the 
percentage of each type to the total. The increasing percentage of 
flue-cured and the decreasing percentage of fire-cured tobacco are 
noteworthy. 
TaBLE 29.—Exports of leaf tobacco from the United States, by types, 1923-89 } 
Type 1923 age age 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 2 
: 1924-28 | 1929-33 
Million| Million| Million| Million| Million| Million| Million| Million| Million 
pounds | pounds | pounds | pounds | pounds | pounds | pounds | pounds | pownds 
Flue-cured, types 11-14_-_-- 266.0 | 312.7] 349.6 | 244.5 | 322.8 | 302.6] 361.9] 362.5 252. 2 
Virginia fire-cured, type 21__| 27.4 22.0 13.3 10.3 9.9 9.5 7.8 10.1 3.9 
Kentucky and ‘Tennessee 
Ere cuteds types 22, 23, 
EN OVON OYE ee ee ae ee ae 167.1 | 105.1 79.0 60.3 52.9 50. 4 47.0 46. 4 30.1 
Burley, typeisless.- Wad 8.6 10.7 12.0 8.9 11.2 11.1 11.3 10. 1 
Southern Maryland, type 
SPs ES ee er eae 18.1 14.2 9.6 Cou 4.7 6.1 5.3 4.5 6.3 
One Sucker, type 35 4_______|__------ 54.0 1.6 Gal 8 5 a7} 1.8 2.1 
Green River, type 36 4_____- 16.2 14 7 4.7 3.4 3.7 P49 oad 2:2 .6 
Ciganleaie sas eee 1.5 1.4 93,8} 19 atl stl 13 2.9 .6 
Black Fat, Water Baler, 
and DarkeAtrican Gms os|pa2 sens § 2.0 8.6 9.7 10.1 9.5 7.8 7.8 5.5 
Other leaf, Perique7_______- 44.9 1b ir) sil all all 1 1 a2, all 
Totalilcateaa aaa 548.9 494.2 479.5 349. 7 414.6 392.8 446. 2 449.7 311.5 
Stems, trimmings, and 
SCE eee ee sete 39. 2 8.1 19.8 16.2 17.5 20.5 14.8 28. 4 20.9 
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Flue-cured, types 11-14____- 48.5 63.3 72.9 69. 9 77.9 77.0 81.1 80.6 81.0 
Virginia fire-cured, type 21_- 5.0 4.5 2.8 3.0 2.4 2.4 1.8 2.3 1.3 
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1 The export statistics in this table are on the basis of crop years as follows: Flue-cured, year beginning 
A ry wary iad, year beginning January of year following production; all other types, year beginning 
ctober. 
2 Preliminary. 
3 Includes Eastern Ohio, type 71. 
4 Prior to Jan. 1, 1927, One Sucker included with Green River. 
5 1926-28, 3-year average. 
6 Prior to Jan. 1, 1927, included with other leaf. 
7 Prior to Jan. 1, 1929, a part of exports of other types not reported separately; beginning Jan. 1, 1929, 
Perique only. 
8 Less than 0.05 percent. 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Compiled from Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the 
United States and official records of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Export weight, 
