Table 6. --Sales of flue-cured tobacco on Salisbury auctions by country 

 of destination^, 1960-63 



Destination 



Weight purchased 



Percent of total sales 



1960 



1961 



1962 



1963 



1960 



1961 



1962 



1963 





Mil. lb. 



Mil. lb. 



Mil. lb. 



93.7 

 3.9 



2.2 



5.7 

 125.2 



.1 



Mil. lb. 



Percent 



50 

 5 



4 

 41 



Percent 



47 

 3 



1 



5 



44 



Percent 



41 

 2 



1 



2 



54 



Percent 



United Kingdom. . . 



Australia 



Republic of South 

 Africa 



109.0 

 10.7 



{') 



8.1 

 90.0 



109.6 

 8.1 



1.9 



11.3 



102.4 



.1 



108.0 

 3.5 



3.0 

 8.2 



72.3 



55.4 

 1.7 



1.6 



Local market 



Other markets .... 

 Unallocated 



4.2 

 37.1 



Total 



217. B 



233.4 



230.8 



194.8 



100 



100 



100 



100.0 



■^ Destination by markets as declared by buyers. Preliminary. 1963 data. 

 ^ If any, in others. 

 ^ Only 3,000 pounds. 



In recent years, export promotion work for RhocJesian tobacco has been carried on by 

 the Tobacco Export Promotion Council of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (TEPCORN). 



TEPCORN was started by private enterprise in 1958. It was formally established as 

 a statutory body by the Federal Tobacco Marketing Levy Act in January 1961. 



Marketing inquiry 



In 1962 a Committee, appointed to inquire into the Rhode sian marketing system for 

 flue-cured tobacco, stated: 



"We recommend that the auction selling system for flue-cured tobacco should remain 

 compulsory and the auctions unfettered and free. 



"We recommend that government give consideration to the appointment of an agri- 

 cultural attache' to the establishment of the Federal office in Washington, with a special 

 responsibility to act as tobacco liaison officer. 



"We recommend that government give favorable consideration to the provision of 

 loans on easy terms for the erection of tobacco buildings to cope with production on the 

 current scales, and to providing an incentive in the form of increased initial allowance 

 for taxation purposes on tobacco barns and grading sheds. 



"We recommend that the Tobacco Industry Board appoint two curing consultants and 

 at least three tobacco grading consultants, and make their services available to growers." 



The Committee also recommended that unidentified sales be continued, that plural 

 selling be instituted on a voluntary basis, and that the Board consider the possibility of a 

 regulation giving tolerances for mixed bales. 



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