FOREWORD 
This report, the first comprehensive one published on 
Madagascar's tobacco by the Foreign Agricultural Service, 
is based on firsthand observations by the author. 
Madagascar tobacco production and trade have so far 
had little impact on U.S, tobacco trade; Madagascar tobacco 
exports have been made largely to France, 
However, as a former French colony, the area has 
special import duty advantages in the European Economic 
Community through its status as an Associated Overseas 
Country. Should production be increased and the increase 
exported, Madagascar would have growing importance in 
world tobacco trade. 
Hugh ©. Kiger, Director 
Tobacco Division 
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