Preferences: 



Preferences granted or received on tobacco and tobacco products in South America, Central America, and 

 Caribbean Islands. 



Country 

 South America: 



Argentina' 



Preference on leaf 



Grants Ecuador wrapper - 

 free. Grants Paraguay 

 leaf - different types 

 range from free to 42% 

 CIF. 



Preference on products 



Grants Paraguary - cigars (exclud- 

 ing "Havana") and black cigarettes, 

 free; chewing tobacco, 5% CIF; 

 rappee, 50% CIF; chopped tobacco, 

 free; others, 42% of CIF. 



Colombia 1 



None. 



Grants Paraguay - all products 

 free; Uruguay - cigars 100% of 

 CIF. 



Ecuador! 



Grants Paraguay leaf ■ 

 free. 



None. 



Falkland Islands 



None. 



British preference 9^ per lb. 

 on cigars and cheroots; 6i per lb. 

 on cigarettes; and 5^ per lb. on 

 cut and other tobacco. 



French Guiana 



Guyana 



Surinam 



Receives preferences on 

 exports to EC. 



None. 



Receives preferences on 

 exports to EC. 



Grants preferences on imports 

 from EC in accordance with its 

 status of an Associated Overseas 

 Country. 



British preference 42^ per lb. 

 on cigars, 80^ per lb. on cigar- 

 ettes; $1.50 per lb. on smoking 

 and chewing, 60^ per lb. on snuff. 



Grants preferences on imports 

 from EC in accordance with its 

 status of an Associated Overseas 

 Country. 



Uruguay! 

 Caribbean Islands 



Paraguay and Brazil. 



None. 



Bahamas^ 



None 



To British Commonwealth countries 

 preferences: 53^ per lb. on cigar- 

 ettes, 23(/ per lb. on fine cut 

 tobacco, and 3^ per lb. on plug. 



1 Member of the Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). 



^Member of the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) which became functional on May 1, 1968. 



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