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pounds, with an average value equivalent to 4.2 U. S. cents per pound. Con- 

 sumption of leaf tobacco in a recent year was about 5-1/4 million pour, 

 which about 4-3/4 million were domestic, and the other half -million i. 

 Most tobacco consumption is in the form of cigarettes, of which over 

 are locally produced and the balance imported, mainly from the United State 

 Relatively few cigars are consumed in Peru. 



Netherlands 



The Netherlands does not produce any significant quantity of tobac 

 does carry on an extensive commerce in tobacco. U. S. import statistics inc 

 cate a sizable quantity of cigar tobacco coming from the Netherlands in the 

 last year and a half. During i960, 227,000 pounds of unstemmed filler (average 

 value excluding duty 22 cents a pound) and 6,000 pounds of scrap were .~ed 

 for consumption . During the first half of 1961, a substantially larger quanti- 

 ty of scrap — 255,000 pounds — entered consumption and also 50,000 pounds jf on- 

 stemmed filler. 



The total arrivals in the U. S. of tobacco from the Netherlands during 

 i960 were 1.3 million pounds — virtually all unstemmed filler. In the first 

 half of 1961 total arrivals of unstemmed filler were only 50,000 pounds, whi 

 arrivals of scrap totaled 249,000 pounds. 



Jamaica 



Jamaica produces a relatively small quantity of cigar tobacco, some of 

 which is said to be of good quality and comparable in some respects with Cu": 

 tobacco. According to U. S. statistics, no unmanufactured tobacco from Jamaica 

 has been imported into the United States. However, imports of Jamaican tobacco 

 by the United Kingdom have risen from less than 100,000 to over 300,000 pounds 

 in the last five years. There have been very small quantities of Jamaican 

 cigars imported into the United States --5,000 in i960, 84,000 in 1959, but 

 none in 1956-58. Cigar production in Jamaica has averaged around 20 million in 

 recent years and about one-third of these were exported. The principal des' 

 nation of exported Jamaican cigars has been the United Kingdom. Available 

 data indicate that production of cigar tobacco fluctuated around 1 million 

 ppunds in the last five years. This was equivalent to about 1 percent 

 duction in Cuba, and less than 3 percent of production in the Dominican Rep 1 

 lie, and was similarly small in relation to the production of cigar toba^ 

 several South American countries. 



U. S. Import Duties and Customs Receipts 



United States duty rates on imported cigar tobacco have und< 

 changes. Rates currently in effect, established under the Tariff . 

 as modified by GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), are 

 2. For non-Communist bloc countries, current rates are from 35 to 60 pe- 

 lower than rates originally established in the Tariff Act 30. 



Cuba has received preferential tariff treat: r half 



Presently, the import duty on Cuban filler and 

 on unstemmed wrapper is 10 percent lower, than on t 

 most other suppliers, although the Philippine Repu 



