TABLE 9.-EUR0PEAN COMMUNITY STANDARD AND INTERVENTION PRICES AND BUYERS' PREMIUMS FOR THE 



1970 AND 1971 CROPS OF LEAF TOBACCO^ 



[In U.S. cents per pound] 



Country and variety 



Standard 

 price 



Intervention 

 price 



Buyer's 

 premium 



Buyer's 

 premium as 

 percentage of 

 standard price 



Germany: 



1. Badischer Geudertheimer (cigar) 82.8 74.5 57.5 69 



2. Badischer Burley E (burley) 100.0 90.0 54.5 55 



3. Virgin SCR (flue-cured) 92.4 83.2 44.3 48 



France: 



4. Paraguay Dragon Vert (air-cured) 63.5 57.2 43.3 68 



5. Nijkerk (dark air) 67.1 60.4 45.0 67 



6. Burley (burley and Bel) 77.5 69.7 32.2 42 



7. Misionero (dark air) 58.2 52.4 41.0 71 



8. Philippin Peit Grammont (dark air) 46.8 42.1 27.5 59 



Belgium: 



9. Semois (dark air) 55.5 49.9 33.7 61 



Italy: 



10. Bright (flue-cured) 75.5 66.6 33.8 45 



11. Burley-Maryland (burley) 64.8 58.3 30.5 47 



12. Kentucky MorodiCori (fire-cured) 62.7 56.5 17.5 28 



13. Nostrano (dark air) 62.4 56.1 45.3 73 



14. Beneventano (dark air) 49.5 44.6 30.8 62 



15. Xanti-Yaka (oriental) 96.6 86.0 54.1 56 



16. Perustitza (oriental) 88.8 79.9 51.3 58 



17. Erzegovina (semioriental) 79.5 71.5 48.6 61 



18. Round Tip Scafati (Sumatra cigar) 404.4 364.0 226.5 56 



19. Brasile Selvaggio (dark air) 40.0 36.0 8.0 20 



Standard and intervention prices were the same for the 1970 and 1971 crops. The buyer's premiums shown are for the 

 1970 crop. The buyer's premiums for the 1971 crop were changed as follows: (1) Type 11, Italian burley decreased by 1.4 

 cents per pound and (2) Type 10, Italian flue— cured increased by 6.4 cents per pound. 



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