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appears that the clear Havana cigars are the only ones that use Cuban totac 

 for binders. The great majority of the cigars -with blended fillers, either 

 with or without Cuban tobacco, now utilize reconstituted binder. In the 

 year an increasing quantity of Cuban tobacco has been used to make reconst_~. 

 binder sheet, and some clear Havana cigars now have this type of binder. 



Wrapper 



Of the total 135 million pounds used in cigar manufacture, about 6 mil- 

 lion pounds were used for the outside wrapper on cigars. (The 6 million pounds 

 should not be interpreted as reflecting a production requirement, since such a 

 figure would also have to allow for trimming and selectivity.) The wrappers 

 are the most select of the cigar tobaccos, and values per pound for both domes- 

 tic and imported cigar wrapper are much higher than for any other cigar tobaccos. 

 The percentage distribution of the tobaccos used as wrapper (unstemmed equiva- 

 lent) was as follows: 



Percent 



Total wrapper for all cigars 1C 



Conn. Valley (type 6l) ~T+8 



Georgia-Florida (type 62) 4l 



Cuban (type 8l) 9 



Other 2 



The major part of the Cuban wrapper tobacco imported is used on the clear 

 Havana cigars. The remainder is used on some blended filler cigars. The "clear 

 Havana" manufacturers deem the Cuban wrapper indispensable to the cigars they 

 make. It is contended that the "character" of the clear Havana cigar would be 

 drastically modified if other types of wrapper leaf are substituted. The Cuban 

 wrapper leaf imported comes mainly from the Partido and Vuelta Abajo districts 

 of Cuba. 



In recent years the value of imported Cuban wrapper ranged from about 

 $4.50 to $6.50 per pound (unstemmed equivalent and including duty). 



Total Use in Cigars 



The estimated average annual quantities of the major types of tobacco 

 used for cigar manufacture are summarized below — unstemmed processing we 

 basis (average of marketing years 1958-59, 1959-60, I90O-0I J. 



Million j 



Pennsylvania (type 4l) 



Cuban (type 8l) 



Puerto Rico (type k6) 



Philippine (type 83) 



Domestic noncigar types 



Connecticut Valley (type ol) 



Ohio (types k2-kk) 



Connecticut (type 51) 



Georgia-Florida (type o2) 



Imported types, other than Cuban and Philippine 



Connecticut Valley (type 52) 



Northern Wise, (type 55) 



Southern Wise, (type 5*0 



Total, all types 



32, 



.2 



31. 



.1 



23. 



11, 



A 





. 



5. 



' 





,9 



k. 



.1 



3. 



.5 



3. 





2, 



-5 



2, 



,1 











