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 arrived in i960, and in the first 6 months of 1961, about 4.1 million pounc 

 The tobacco arriving as unstemmed filler is processed into scrap in t 

 thus appears mostly as scrap in the statistics on " imports for -lt.: ~ 1 -, r. . 



Colombia's tobacco production has trended upward in the past decaie. 

 Production of tobacco that might be considered usable for cigars was around 

 ^5 to 50 million pounds in the early 1950' s; in most recent years, output has 

 been about 80 to 85 million pounds. In i960, production fell to about 62 nd - 

 lion, due to poor growing conditions in some sections of the principal t 

 growing areas and the diversion of some tobacco land to cotton. The bulk of 

 the tobacco crop is used domestically in manufacture of dark cigarettes and 

 cigars. About nine-tenths of the tobacco usable for cigars consists of native" 

 dark air-cured tobacco and the rest is classifiable as cigar tyre tcbacc 

 However, the native tobacco is largely used domestically for producing dark 

 cigarettes and other tobacco products, and has usually accounted for almost all 

 the leaf exports from Colombia. Exports in 195^-59 ranged from 10 to ac 

 million pounds. In i960, they rose to a record figure -- 1^ million pounds, 

 with an average export value equivalent to 17 U. S. cents. Vest Germany, as 

 usual, was the largest market for Colombian leaf, taking about half of the total. 

 France, the United States, the Netherlands, and Algeria were also ranking out- 

 lets. 



Tobacco exported from Colombia is reported to have good combust ibili" 

 but to be rather neutral in flavor. Much of the crop is lightly fermented 

 use in the mild, dark cigarettes which predominate in that country. 



Brazil 



Until 1961 little if any cigar tobacco from Brazil entered for consumption 

 in the United States. But in the first half of 1961, 96,000 pounds of unstemmed 

 filler (average value excluding duty, 38 cents a pound) and 85,0C0 pounds of 

 scrap (average value excluding duty, kl cents per pound) were imported for re- 

 sumption . During i960, total arrivals of unstemmed filler from Brazil were 

 190,000 pounds, but in the first half of 1961, total arrivals jumped to 

 million pounds. 



Brazil is the world's fifth largest producer of tobacco, and is one of 

 the world's major producers of cigar types. Most of the cigar I 

 exported. By far the greater part of cigar tobacco produced is a dar 

 type known as Bahia, grown in the northern Brazilian state of the same 1 

 Some cigar filler and dark air-cured leaf are grown in southern Brazil. r - 

 duction of Bahia in 1955-59 averaged 6k million pounds, but with an expanaj 

 in acreage, output increased to 75 million pounds in i960. The ma 

 of Bahia is used as filler and binder, but some is used as wrapper. It 

 been estimated that the usual disposition of the Bahia cigar leaf — at 

 3 to fi percent wrapper, 7 to 15 percent binder, 20 I 

 and 60 to 80 percent short filler. 



Bahia tobacco is true cigar tobacco ai 

 ar e in many ways similar to the Remedies zone iba. Of all the :.- - r 

 fliers of cigar leaf to the United States. BraEi] Lfl 

 tobacco that, like Cuban tobacco, has d vor ar. 



they are considerably different from those possessed I 



