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U.S. TRADE SUMMARY FOR JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1998
U.S. unmanufactured tobacco exports for January-February 1998 totaled 37,615 metric tons, valued at $224.5 million. This represents a 15 percent decrease in quantity and 17 percent decrease in value when compared to January-February 1997. The leading U.S. leaf export markets so far in 1998 are: the European Union, 16,332 tons; Japan, 9,420 tons; Thailand, 4,623 tons; Malaysia, 986 tons; and the Russian Federation, 611 tons.
Flue-cured exports for January-February 1998 reached 17,354 metric tons, valued at $126.4 million. This is down nearly 28 percent in quantity and down nearly 28 percent in value from January-February 1997. The leading U.S. flue-cured export markets so far in 1998 are: the European Union, 9,904 tons; Japan, 3,635; Malaysia, 844 tons; and Thailand, 838 tons.
Burley exports for January-February 1998 totaled 5,467 tons, valued at $42.9 million, down 35 percent in quantity and 34 percent in value from January-February 1997. The leading U.S. burley export markets in so far in 1998 are: the European Union, 18,523 tons; Thailand, 3,111 tons; and the Philippines, 481 tons.
U.S. cigarette exports in January-February 1998 totaled 32.1 billion pieces, valued at $671 million, down nearly 6 percent in quantity and nearly 4 percent in value from January-February 1997. The leading U.S. cigarette export markets in 1998 are: Japan, 11.3 billion pieces; the European Union, 6.32 billion pieces (to mainly Belgium/Luxembourg which is a major transshipment point for exports to other European markets); Cyprus, 2.0 billion pieces; Lebanon, 1.5 billion pieces; the Russian Federation, 1.6 billion pieces; Saudi Arabia, 1.1 billion pieces; Singapore, 1.0 billion pieces; and Hong Kong, 956 million pieces.
U.S. exports of bulk smoking tobacco for January-February 1998 totaled 12,141 metric tons, valued at $91.7 million, up 34 percent in quantity and 39 percent in value from January-February 1997. The leading export markets so far in 1998 are: the European Union, 4,666 tons; Turkey, 2,229 tons; Egypt, 1,390 tons; Poland, 1,199 tons; and Japan, 898 tons.
U.S. unmanufactured tobacco imports for consumption (duty paid) for January-February 1998 totaled 52,400 tons, valued at $198.4 million, down nearly 18 percent in quantity and 21 percent in value when compared to January-February 1997. Imports of oriental tobacco, the leading tobacco type imported by the United States, reached 25,655 tons, valued at $128.5 million in 1998, down 18 percent in quantity and down 9 percent in value when compared to the same period in 1997. Flue-cured imports so far in 1998 totaled 7,637 tons, valued at $26.2 million, down 19 percent in quantity and down nearly 32 in value from January-February 1997. Burley imports for the first two months of 1998 totaled 6,891 tons, valued at $24.5 million, down 26 percent in quantity and down 35 percent in value from the same two month period in 1997. U.S. imports of stems and scrap tobacco so far in 1998 total 5,657 tons, valued at $2.6 million, down 20 percent in quantity and down over 90 percent in value from the same two month period in 1997. So far in 1998, the leading suppliers to the U.S. of unmanufactured tobacco imports for consumption are: Turkey, 17,396 tons; Brazil, 7,610 tons; the European Union, 5,464 tons; Canada, 3,247 tons; Malawi, 3,061 tons; Bulgaria, 2,517 tons; and Greece, 2,517 tons.
U.S. general imports (actual arrivals) of unmanufactured tobacco so far in 1998 totaled 40,138 tons, valued at $127.6 million. This represents a 25 percent decrease in quantity and 40 percent decrease in value from the same period in 1997.
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