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NORP'(DIaC VLsGINIA4V'-PIS:(YC Nor.°o11c, Virginia Jline 22, 1962 Tobrac~o Export' Re. ords Set N Wut'SIfQTGTDN, June 20 ~ (UPI), - The Department of ~ JOUIMAL OF ~wgriculture today estatnatea CO?t11$R(,'E ~ y~ear ending ]une 30 at 533J000r ~' June 29, 1962 000,000 - 10.000,00010100 abovee ftacal 1951 and the hig.hest.forV1t any fiaeal or calendar year.. Cigarette Ha11if' Seen United States amokers lnclud- -3'' SurvitYing O~ppoBitiUn ingthose overaeaa,.. consumed ~ . While governments here and in •aboutb06,000;000,000cigarettes, 8luopeare considering stepss to ~ee remaining. 27,'OOO,o00J000 ~. arrasL the a reed of cigarette- were shipped to foreign toun- 'p . trtesandtoUNtedlStatesifaland N' tmohittg because of the cancer tie-up, available statistics indi- eate that the world tobacco tn- dnstry' has little to fear in the near future. Govern:ment, schemes ranac anywhere from raising cigareUetazea in Britaitt, to lowering them in, West Germany. Advertise- menhs encouraging smoking were banned' in. Italy, bu6 statistics shoa•an8 per;cent increaseutthe number of cigarettes smoked., Iw West Germany, where ciga- rettes adi•ertisemeots are uncoa• troll°de, the government is con• altlering, an anti,amoking cam- paiS•t. In the Soviet Union, ciga- rette smok'fng has been generally condemned as a bad'h'abit; cancer inducing or not. Complicating the whole sub-jeet,of . course, is . the fact that cigarette, taxess in manynationsy are a prime source of nationaal' income, and 9a other countriea,e thetobaoco. monopoly. Is state- owned. possslons. In.aea. review of the tobaceo situation,. the Department.said ~thet•ee would be, moderatee in- creases; this . year over last; , In_ 'aoteagesof thee two major cigarette tobaccos - flue-cured .and burley. Ctgar and dgarillo cros,umpn tlon in the year ending June 20 Is estlmated'at about 7:100.000: 000, probsb'ly170; to 200; oo0J0o0above the falrlystab'le level! of ~rhetliree precedtngflscal~years•.. N World Puffs On DesP- ite Camcer1 Scare June 24, 1962 Japanese Tobacco Ezports • 'Highest $inoe'Ylrorld War II! ,.WA'SHINGTON,June23 (AP) -The Agriculture Department reports that exports of unmanu, .. ' faotured tobacoo: by the Japan, Monopoly (lorporatfon during 19,ti1 totaled 14;700,000 po:m"s; omnpared with SID,200,000 1n t080. Last yosr'd exports from Ja- pan were the largest since World'War lt. Burley accounted for 62.4 . per cent of the total . ahipments;, nattve llght-atr: '. tured types 300 perr cent and - . flue-cured,therest. . . - There ~ were ~~ no reported to.a . btf accoexpors~~.romJapan to the~~ United StatnA last.year, New York, New York WORLD TELEi`'~tAh'I ~, &'~ SUN d June 6, 1962 0I, World To'~acao ~ , 1) Tradle'Up im 61 - WASHINGTON, June 5' (UPI). -The , Fbrei;n Agriculture Serv- iee estimates world eaports' of tmmanufactured tobacco l0 19611 . at a record .1,670,OW : Iwunds., up . 10 per eent: from exports reported 1 the previous year: The agency safd I the sharp in- crease In world exports reflected growing demand for cigarettes in most ctatntries, smaller domestic crops itlt:.a number of'.Important' eoosuming' countries, and' some D NFSi' YORK T7IdES'. New York, New York' June 6) 1962 World Exports of'TobaccC Reached' New Level in '61„ WdI:SHSNGTGN, June S ~(A'P) '-World exports oEunmanufac- .f tuml tobacco ~ aet a record . of '. 1,700,000,000 pounds in 1001;,up '10 per cent from~1900. Averagee e=ports.in 1935-SO were 1;400,, OOO,i000 pounds... The Department of : Agricul- l:aresald a sharp increase.tn, . world exports of, tobacco last year reflected gr>owingdemand I for cigarettes in most :wuntries,, smaller domestic crops . in a. ' number of . couatrtes and' some . stock builtlmg.. . : The department, said thatt trade of counttdess within the , Sino-Sovletbloc has been ex- cluded because data onn ttilss trade, are incomplete. The. United.. States was the, top . exporter for unmaaufaad tured tobacco in 1981. withex-ports ; of, S0I,t)<loJOO0 pounds, . up . 1I perr cent from 1800. The 1961 . value, =$90J800,000, , was a rea- ord - atock building. By ELMER RbESSNER r Roessner rettes bn tttost countries,,smalkr domestic crops in some ansum- to growing rlea mand.,for ag4- ports of unmanu- factared tobacco, Iast year were almost 1.7 billion pounde• 0 new record ind a 10', per cent r f s e, over the 1850 fig- ure: The FAS at- tributed the risei Regardless of , how you feel, the rest of the world is rot alarmed ab'out.,wncer from cigarettes. New figures by the Foreign Agp- cadtural' Service shows that ex- ing countries, and l some stock building:, United Statea exports in 1961, 1 t i0001000 . pounds worth f390,tt0o; ,: set a oew record. West Ger- ~any; Japan, Thailand and Den- InarkaLso, reported gaina: West European markets took about 76 per cent of the, total American exports. That7and, also an imporder, Japan and Austnliaa were also large buyers of Ameri-I can, leaf. pl'fiER RECORDS' I II Eicports from the Federation- aii, ~hudesia and Nyasaland' also set ~facordii. Turkish exports were fequal to the 1957 exports and Greek exports were . cloae to the 1951 record. lfidila was, a heavy exporter, . ranking behind the . U:S. and Rhodesia and Nyasaland in flue•oured shipmepts. lndial5 best markets were Britain, Aden, the Soviet Union. Belgium, France and the Netherlaqds;. Blraril wass a, larger ecpnrter, shipping,out 107,OO0.000.pounds0 a mark:exeeeded only in 1947. Curi- ously, the U.S: was a, big im- porter of Brazil leaf, taking in 900.000 pounds, compared with 300.000 pounds in 1960: Other maior exporting countries 'ncluded', Columbia, Algerna, Italy and Canada. Ezporta from Cuba. Yugoslavia and Indonesia fell from . 1900', marks: . Bntain• where most of ehe ag: tstion against cigarette smoking flourished' last year, att its ex- partsM but only, slightly. It im• ported 365 million pounds in 1900... and S(5' million i pounds last year. , ' West Germany, probably, rellect~ ing higher wages and increased prosperiity, increased imports from, 1900 million pounds in 1080to 15' million pounds last year:. United States imports set a new recnrd. IG81 million ~ pounds.. seven millionipoundsmom dvn in 1960... Most' of the impo: rc were of ori- ental tobaccos,, designed tn tl.vnr American smokes. And desp::- the embargo, Cuba remained the largest,supplier of cigar,tobaocos.~.' although ita total was less. Sup- plies from the PhHippines, Cotum- bia and the Dominican Republic increased. Freneh.imports were up. largely because blue mold damage cut domestir . rrnnsr I