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Receipts from U. S. import duties on cigar tobacco and cigars for the 

 past 7 fiscal years are shown in table 3- In the fiscal year ended June 30, 

 196l, receipts from duties on imported cigar tobacco amounted to $5-4 million, 

 including levies on imported Cuban leaf of $3-8 million. In addition, imported 

 cigars and cheroots yielded an additional $726,000, of which collections on 

 Cuban cigars amounted to $686,000. Duties on Cuban cigar leaf and cigars thus 

 amounted to $4|- million. In the previous 5 years, duties from tobacco and cigars 

 imported from Cuba averaged $5 .3 million. 



USE OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN TOBACCOS IN CIGARS 



Cigars produced in this country and Puerto Rico are the principal outlet 

 for the domestic cigar types of tobacco. In addition, a sizable quantity of do- 

 mestic noncigar tobacco is used, especially in lower-priced cigars. Domestic 

 cigar types have a secondary outlet in scrap chewing tobacco, and exports are 

 significant in the wrapper types and, to a lesser extent, in the binder types. 

 The imported cigar tobacco and scrap is largely utilized in cigars, although 

 some of it "may be used in scrap chewing tobacco. 



Statistical data are not adequate to trace particular uses of individual 

 domestic types in any precise manner nor for presenting exact and detailed 

 breakdowns. The combining of domestic and foreign tobacco to form the finished 

 product is complex in itself, and constructing estimates is further complicated 

 by the substantial differences in sizes of cigars, technological changes in pro- 

 cessing, and the different weight basis on which quantitative data are reported 

 in various statistical series. For these reasons the following estimates of 

 tobacco usage should be regarded only as rough approximations, not exact meas- 

 ures of the magnitudes involved. These approximations are expressed in terms 

 of the un stemmed processing weight equivalent of the tobaccos used- -that is, as 

 whole leaf, before it has been stemmed or threshed but after it has undergone 

 moisture and other losses following its sales at the farm level and during sub- 

 sequent storage. 



The total quantity of tobacco used in U. S. cigar manufacture in a recent 

 3 year period (marketing years 1958-59, 1959-60, I96O-61) averaged about 135 

 million pounds annually. About 89 million pounds — just under two-thirds — was 

 domestically-produced leaf and 46 million pounds — just over one-third — came 

 from foreign sources. 



Filler 



Of the 135 million pounds, about 113 million pounds were used for filler, 

 the core that comprises the major portion of the cigar. The percentage distri- 

 bution of the tobaccos used as filler (unstemmed equivalent) was as follows: 



Percent 



Total filler for all cigars 100 



Cuban (type 8l) ~2o" 



Pennsylvania (type 4l) 26 



Puerto Rico (type 46) 21 



Philippine (type 83) 10 



Noncigar (misc. types) 9 



Jhio (types 42-44) 4 



Other imported types 3 



Other 1 



