JANUARY 1943 
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Snuff 
Sniiff consumption was between 39 and 40 million pounds in both 1947 and 
1946. About the same amount is likely to be produced and consumed' in 1943/ 
Snuff consumption in the last 2 years was below the wartime peak of 43.6 million 
pounds but about 2 or 3 million pounds greater than in the late thirties. 
EXPORTS-' 
The United States exported about '505 million pounds of unmanufactured 
tobacco during 1947 compared with 663 million pounds in 1946. The 194 6 tobacco 
exports from this country were second only to the 777 million pounds exported 
in 1919. Despite the 24 percent drop from 1946 to 1947, United States exports 
in 1947 were 16 percent above the 1934-33 average. The declared value of 1947 
tobacco exports was approximately 270 million dollars compared to 352 million 
dollars in 1946 and the 1934-33 average of 137 million. 
The United Kinrdom is the largest foreign customer for United States 
tobacco. Eefore the war, about one-half of our tobacco exports went to the 
United Kingdom. In 1946, the proportion was. 55 percent; and in 1947 about 
40 percent.. Last April the United Kingdom sharply increased the duty on tobacco 
in order to curtail consumption thus reducing imports and conserving dwindling dollar 
resources. The relocations of dollar-exchange to tobacco importers were con- 
siderably reduced from the previous year. During the flue-cured marketing sea- 
son which opened in July, British purchasers took considerably less leaf than 
the year before and in late October stopped purchases entirely. United States 
exports of tobacco to the United Kingdom during July-December 1947 were 41 per- 
cent less than in the same period in • 1946 and 39 percent below the 1934-33 July- 
November average. .... 
The importance of the United Kingdom as an outlet for United Slates to- 
bacco exports is widely recognized* The importance of the United States as a 
source of tobacco for the United Kingdom is shown in the table below. - 
United Kingdom — Total imports of tobacco 
1933^, 
1946 
1947 
11/12" 
Jar.-Uov. 
Jan. -Nov. 
From 
Mil. lbs. 
Uil. lbs. 
Uil. lbs. 
United States 
236 
332 
137 
British India 
30 
17 
22 
Southern Rhodesia 
17 
21 
20 
Canada 
15 
8 
22 
Nyasaland 
12 

s 
11 
Total (sDecified countries) 
310 
337 
262 
'".rand total 
317 
■ 391 
276 
it Monthly average in 1933 multiplied by 11. 
1/ Figurec in thio exportc section are on declared weight "basis. 
