IMPORTS

Table A.4.1 Tobacco leaf - imports (1000 Mt)

	1970-72	1980-82	1990-92	1 993	1 994	1 995	1 996	1 997	1 998	1 999
World	962.2	1 300.8	1 641.5	1 702.5	1 811.7	1 746.2	2 006.0	2 062.1	2 050.7	2 062.0
Developed	747.8	1 029.4	1 401.2	1 354.9	1 447.0	1 361.8	1 595.8	1 603.1	1 628.5	1 641.3
North America	113.7	230.3	267.6	369.6	276.8	210.8	341.5	325.4	262.3	244.4
United States	111.7	225.8	263.5	359.7	264.4	199.1	326.5	306.8	246.8	241.1
Europe	481.2	589.8	938.1	710.2	816.0	797.4	923.4	888.0	965.1	905.9
EU (15)	397.3	483.6	808.8	577.4	656.0	643.7	738.7	698.8	396.8	295.1
Germany	160.2	181.1	180.4	153.6	182.6	173.2	184.6	174.7	171.5	189.7
Netherlands	58.1	88.0	95.0	73.7	87.8	87.3	96.9	116.0	99.6	112.6
Spain	59.7	71.4	69.3	44.7	53.5	48.4	52.8	55.6	61.2	53.9
United Kingdom	91.8	130.7	132.0	111.6	124.8	134.3	177.6	145.8	236.0	128.6
*Other Europe*	*0.0*	*0.0*	*129.3*	*132.9*	*160.1*	*153.7*	*184.7*	*189.3*	*182.3*	*31.5*
Switzerland	33.3	24.9	30.6	27.6	38.0	37.0	41.8	38.0	34.9	31.5
Area of the former USSR	77.4	104.1	34.2	125.0	184.4	204.4	202.0	254.5	257.5	361.5
Oceania	16.4	14.8	13.1	13.2	14.1	16.2	18.8	18.0	14.7	18.3
Other developed	59.2	90.5	124.4	136.7	155.8	132.9	110.1	117.4	128.9	124.9
Japan	47.2	77.3	99.5	118.7	135.5	115.1	85.6	98.4	101.4	98.9
Developing	214.4	271.4	354.2	347.6	364.6	384.4	410.2	459.0	422.2	420.7
Africa	57.5	49.7	52.4	55.7	62.5	59.6	52.1	51.2	62.7	58.6
Latin America	42.2	22.5	40.7	49.1	46.3	56.2	69.7	75.5	86.9	63.8
Near East	26.1	60.4	79.9	76.5	79.1	85.6	110.3	123.3	114.6	122.1
Egypt	15.8	33.3	45.8	44.1	47.7	48.3	53.1	53.8	54.7	55.0
Turkey	0.0	0.0	11.7	12.5	16.7	21.6	43.0	54.4	42.2	48.8
Far East	87.2	137.8	180.0	165.6	175.9	182.2	177.7	208.2	158.0	179.7
China, Mainland	8.7	43.9	31.9	31.1	16.8	8.6	13.6	15.1	6.7	10.5
India	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.4	0.2	2.6	1.5
Indonesia	10.9	19.4	26.7	30.2	40.3	48.0	45.1	47.1	17.2	40.9
Thailand	10.7	10.4	8.3	7.5	9.3	9.5	10.0	10.2	10.6	10.2

Source: FAO

Table A.4.2 Tobacco leaf - import value (million $)

	1970-72	1980-82	1990-92	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
World	1 546	4 493	6 314	5 972	6 235	6 113	7 283	7 925	7 480	7 340
Developed	1 360	3 675	5 105	4 794	5 029	4 764	5 676	6 010	5 807	5 821
North America	123	447	934	1 025	764	607	1 135	1 217	849	793
United States	119	431	923	1 002	740	582	1 097	1 170	811	782
Europe	987	2 400	3 352	2 867	3 185	3 159	3 572	3 633	3 661	3 690
EU (15)	862	2 098	2 968	2 430	2 692	2 669	2 957	2 912	2 927	2 933
Belgium-Luxembourg	48	125	204	181	199	222	224	190	184	173
France	46	74	122	113	132	121	115	89	102	108
Germany	245	584	788	681	724	739	742	705	739	839
Greece	0	21	77	83	77	98	126	99	89	103
Italy	36	118	170	116	112	131	134	171	170	169
Netherlands	78	290	479	373	436	471	461	526	497	555
Spain	51	238	330	224	282	263	297	309	337	303
United Kingdom	255	433	509	392	430	415	636	592	552	432
*Other Europe*	87	*190*	*258*	*350*	*419*	*428*	*539*	*619*	*633*	*644*
Bulgaria	11	46	21	18	16	23	33	29	34	34
Czech Rep				32	46	58	87	132	121	78
Hungary	7	17	28	41	56	44	58	67	68	63
Poland	5	25	52	98	126	142	155	185	184	228
Romania	3	2	3	17	10	5	22	36	64	84
Switzerland	61	101	154	144	164	155	183	170	162	157
Area of the former USSR	113	334	135	163	254	241	329	457	582	679
Russian Fed			28	77	108	131	177	308	416	510
Ukraine			18	48	109	76	103	94	104	98
Oceania	30	68	63	67	75	104	96	82	66	77
Other Developed	107	427	621	673	751	653	544	622	649	582
Japan	95	385	537	611	687	585	474	552	566	547
Developing	186	819	1 209	1 178	1 206	1 350	1 607	1 915	1 673	1 519
Africa	37	125	138	140	167	153	147	142	179	159
Algeria	3	38	20	45	73	45	15	16	34	36
Morocco	4	16	20	14	17	14	24	19	19	21
Tunisia	1	10	17	20	14	17	18	22	31	20
Latin America	21	81	124	136	112	150	211	258	302	170
Argentina	0	2	4	13	8	20	22	23	15	17
Brazil	0	1	20	26	28	51	52	70	51	7
Mexico	0	0	55	40	16	6	10	32	39	33
Near East	33	174	288	314	313	358	481	537	478	469
Egypt	19	93	114	128	142	134	146	128	149	161
Turkey	0	0	75	94	86	134	240	341	255	248
Far East	92	430	654	585	609	686	765	975	712	719
China, Mainland	3	90	61	51	28	29	61	84	35	52
Indonesia	2	29	55	77	100	115	134	158	76	128
Korea Rep.	4	50	54	46	54	75	105	96	86	87
Malaysia	10	26	36	35	36	51	63	110	74	90
Philippines	7	43	77	57	94	91	64	121	86	106
Singapore	8	16	60	43	64	68	76	87	55	30
Thailand	22	54	52	51	61	59	57	53	73	73

Source: FAO

Table A.4.3 Cigarettes - imports ('000 tonnes)

	1970-72	1980-82	1990-92	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
World	120.6	273.6	566.5	662.7	724.2	735.7	718.1	684.6	683.8	641.2
Developed	87	180	361	408	456	472	445	439	483	432
North America	0	1	6	18	4	4	5	5	7	11
United States	0	1	6	17	4	3	4	4	6	11
Europe	33	105	208	243	280	261	243	241	275	263
EU (15)	24	92	171	188	235	208	199	202	244	231
Belgium-Luxembourg	2	3	5	9	11	12	9	9	10	17
France	5	26	51	67	61	58	54	61	60	63
Germany	5	8	11	9	12	17	14	27	29	26
Greece	0	1	6	9	11	12	12	11	13	12
Italy	5	28	35	38	42	39	39	41	43	51
Netherlands	2	16	17	15	20	18	20	19	19	17
Spain	5	4	27	18	18	27	23	10	15	22
United Kingdom	1	3	17	18	53	19	18	16	45	13
*Other Europe*
Romania	0	0	6	15	15	21	12	8	7	6
Yugoslavia			2	8	13	14	15	17	15	15
Area of the former USSR	49	66	89	85	101	132	117	112	117	71
Oceania	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Other Developed	4	7	58	62	70	75	81	81	84	86
Japan	2	5	55	59	67	72	77	78	81	83
Developing	34	94	205	255	268	263	273	246	201	209
Africa	6	14	20	21	21	23	22	21	19	19
Latin America	4	5	22	20	21	23	24	25	23	21
Near East	11	56	62	65	65	69	63	65	46	46
Saudi Arabia	5	19	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	20
Far East (Asia and Pacific)	12	18	99	147	161	148	162	134	113	123
China, Mainland	0	0	8	11	0	13	18	7	3	3
Korea Rep.	0	0	5	7	8	12	12	12	5	7
Singapore	2	3	26	47	45	38	47	58	45	49

Source: USDA

Table A.4.4 Cigars - Imports (1000 Mt)

	1970-72	1980-82	1990-92	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
World	10.1	9.6	39.8	21.9	22.7	18.7	25.7	26.6	24.8
Developed	8.6	7.5	13.6	18.3	20.2	15.6	17.9	19.0	17.0
North America	0.5	0.0	1.3	1.5	1.8	2.4	4.0	7.2	6.0
United States	0.4	0.0	1.3	1.5	1.8	2.4	3.9	7.0	5.8
Europe	7.7	7.1	11.3	13.3	14.0	11.6	12.5	10.6	10.2
EU (15)	7.4	6.9	10.9	12.7	13.6	11.1	12.0	8.7	9.8
Belgium-Luxembourg	1.8	2.9	1.1	2.1	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.9	1.1
France	0.6	1.7	1.4	1.6	3.2	2.1	2.5	1.4	1.7
Germany	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.8
Netherlands	3.2	0.0	3.0	3.3	4.3	3.5	3.8	3.8	4.3
Other Europe
Czech Rep	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2
Area of the former USSR	0.0	0.0	0.7	3.3	4.2	1.4	1.2	1.0	0.6
Estonia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.2
Russian Fed	0.0	0.0	0.7	3.1	4.0	1.2	0.8	0.8	0.1
Oceania	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Other developed	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Developing	1.5	2.1	26.1	3.6	2.5	3.1	7.8	7.6	7.8
Africa	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.8	0.8	1.1	1.3	1.1	0.9
Mauritania	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Latin America	0.2	1.9	23.8	0.3	0.7	0.3	0.8	0.9	1.5
Brazil	0.2	1.9	23.5	0.0	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Paraguay	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.5
Near East	1.3	0.2	0.6	0.9	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.5
Far East	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.6	0.8	1.5	5.4	5.3	4.9
Bangladesh	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.1
Cambodia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.5	4.5	4.5
United Arab Emirates	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1

Source: USDA

Table A.4.5 Other tobacco - imports ('000 tonnes)

	1970	1980	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
World	22.1	65.5	88.3	82.4	152.1	132.4	141.7	167.1	186.6	214.1	233.6
Developed	18.7	52.4	88.3	82.4	103.6	94.3	99.1	109.6	128.3	145.2	158.4
North America	4.7	15.0	0.0	0.0	6.2	6.1	3.2	3.9	3.5	4.0	4.6
Canada	0.9	1.0	0.0	0.0	2.2	1.9	1.1	1.4	1.8	1.5	1.6
United States	3.8	14.0	0.0	0.0	4.0	4.2	2.1	2.5	1.7	2.5	3.0
Europe	12.3	35.6	88.3	82.4	93.3	83.1	85.5	95.2	104.4	115.2	126.8
EU (15)	10.6	33.0	88.3	82.4	83.2	72.5	72.8	83.3	86.7	96.4	110.0
Austria	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.6	1.2	1.4	1.6	1.9	2.2
Belgium-Luxembourg	1.9	4.8	11.1	11.8	10.4	9.0	6.3	8.1	9.5	14.9	15.5
France	1.0	2.2	16.4	2.1	2.9	3.6	4.1	4.3	5.5	6.9	10.6
Germany	0.0	0.0	28.2	31.5	31.4	26.6	27.3	25.8	25.6	27.9	30.6
Greece	0.0	0.0	0.8	1.1	1.5	1.3	0.9	2.0	1.2	1.1	1.8
Ireland	2.5	3.7	2.9	3.7	3.8	3.9	4.8	4.7	5.6	4.6	3.8
Italy	0.2	0.4	1.3	1.0	1.3	0.9	1.8	3.1	3.2	3.1	3.9
Netherlands	0.6	8.3	14.4	14.3	14.9	12.1	14.8	16.8	15.0	17.9	18.7
Portugal	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	1.0	2.8
Spain	0.1	2.6	2.6	5.0	2.1	3.8	2.5	3.3	2.2	3.4	4.5
United Kingdom	2.7	9.2	10.2	11.3	11.8	8.7	7.5	12.3	16.1	12.4	14.6
Other Europe
Czech Rep	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.3	2.0	1.1	3.2	4.3	3.8
Hungary	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.6	1.4	1.5	0.9
Malta	0.5	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.7	1.3	1.2	0.9	0.8	0.8
Poland	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.7	1.9	1.9	1.5	0.9	2.3	1.9
Romania	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.1	0.2	0.7	2.8	1.3	0.0
Switzerland	0.9	1.4	0.0	0.0	2.9	4.1	3.4	3.8	4.2	3.3	3.9
Area of the former USSR					2.6	3.7	8.8	8.8	18.8	24.5	25.3
Kazakhstan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.1	1.8	7.0	9.6	6.8
Lithuania	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	1.4	2.5	3.2
Russian Fed	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.2	1.5	6.5	5.4	9.6	9.6	12.4
Oceania developed	1.5	1.4	0.0	0.0	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.1	0.9
Australia	1.5	1.4	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.0	0.8
Other developed	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.8
Developing	3.4	13.1	0.0	0.0	48.5	38.1	42.6	57.5	58.3	68.9	75.2
Africa	0.7	1.0	0.0	0.0	7.3	6.2	7.4	7.7	6.3	6.4	6.5
Algeria	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	2.8	1.4	1.3	1.3
Lesotho	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.6
Latin America	1.0	1.4	0.0	0.0	3.2	3.6	4.9	5.8	7.5	10.7	11.6
Brazil	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.6	1.9	2.8	4.0	5.0	7.7	7.8
Near East	0.2	9.9	0.0	0.0	28.8	18.1	17.0	23.8	26.8	34.1	41.0
Cyprus	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.8	1.7	1.0	1.4	1.2	2.5	2.6
Egypt	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.5	1.7	2.2	4.9
Saudi Arabia	0.1	8.3	0.0	0.0	13.7	8.1	3.6	9.2	9.2	12.0	12.0
Sudan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.6	2.0	2.1	2.1
Turkey	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.2	3.5	4.9	4.7	6.9	10.3	14.9
Far East	1.4	0.8	0.0	0.0	8.0	9.1	12.0	19.3	16.7	16.5	15.0
Indonesia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.5	2.6	2.5	4.1	4.6	4.9	2.6
Malaysia	0.6	0.2	0.0	0.0	2.0	1.1	1.0	3.8	1.7	2.8	1.2
Viet Nam	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.4	1.5	3.2	5.4	3.5	6.8
Oceania developing	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.2	1.1	1.3	0.9	1.0	1.2	1.1

Source: USDA