U.S. Imports of Unmanufactured Tobacco 



The United States ranked third among world 

 importers of unmanufactured tobacco in 1977. 

 About one-half of these imports were the oriental 

 types used for blending in cigarettes. Most of this 

 tobacco comes from Greece and Turkey. Imports 

 of flue-cured and burley leaf are increasing and 



accounted for one-third of the imports during 

 1977 with Brazil, Mexico and South Korea being 

 the primary suppliers. Cigar-leaf types make up 

 most of the remaining imports. The Dominican 

 Republic is the leading source of cigar type 

 tobaccos, followed by Colombia, Indonesia, and 

 the Philippines. 



REFERENCE GUIDE FOR TOBACCO INFORMATION IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Agency 



Agricultural Marketing Service 



Tobacco Division 



Program responsibilities 



Inspection and grading service, develop- 

 ment of grade standards, training and 

 demonstrations, market news, stocks re- 

 port, Plant and Seed Exportation Act. 



Types of publications 



Marketing news reports (field) 

 Market reviews (annually) 

 Stocks reports (quarterly) 

 Annual report on statistics 



Agricultural Stabilization and 

 Conservation Service: 



Price Support and Loan Division 



Policy and legislative proposals; national 

 loan levels, quotas, and allotments; 

 grade loan rates. 



Statistical information on 

 programs 



Production Adjustment Division 



Issue regulations based on the Agricul- 

 tural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended; 

 provide procedures and guidance for 

 administration of the tobacco program 

 through state and county offices. 



Statistical information on 

 programs 



Producer Associations Division 



Administration of price support program 

 through grower cooperatives. 



Statistical information on 

 programs 



Foreign Agricultural Service: 



Tobacco and Cotton Division 



Promotion and expansion of exports, par 

 ticipation in formal trade negotiations 

 on access to markets and tariff regula- 

 tions, maintains a global reporting and 

 analysis network of attaches' analysis 

 of exports and imports. 



Foreign crops and markets 

 Foreign agriculture circu- 

 lars 



(Foreign Tobacco [FT] 

 series) 

 Special reports 



Office of the General Sales 

 Manager 



PL 480 (Food for Peace) export sales of 

 Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 

 stocks, export credit sales, export 

 sales report. 



Quarterly report, annual report 

 on PL 480, and Weekly Export 

 Sales report 



Economics, Statistics, and 

 Cooperatives Service: 



Economic and statistical analyses of 

 tobacco production, processing and mar- 

 keting. 



The Tobacco Situation, Outlook, 

 and special reports 



Agricultural Estimates Division 



Estimates on acreage, yield, production, 

 and price on tobacco; parity prices. 



Crop report 

 Agricultural prices 



Science and Education Administration 



Plant Genetics and Germ Plasm 

 Institute (Tobacco Laboratory) 



Research and testing concerning tobacco 

 production, breeding, disease, and 

 quality investigations. 



Technical bulletins, Farmers' 

 bulletins, USDA handbooks, 

 material for extension circu- 

 lars, State Experiment 

 Station bulletins, scientific 

 journals 



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