Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Tobacco Situation, Vol. 49: August, 1949
United States exports of unmanufactured tobacco in the recent fiscal year (july 1998-june 1999) totaled 951 million pounds (export weight) valued at. 226 million dollars. Both quantity and value were 10 percent above 1997-98. Flue-cured tobacco accounted for three-fourths of the total. Each leaf group except Virginia firse-cured increased over the preceding year. Cigar tobacco exports increased sharply. Eca pro grams were'a major factor affecting tobacco exocrts to the United Kingdom and other western eiropean countries. From April 3, 1998, through June 30, 1999, eca procurement authorizations for United States tobacco amounted to 137 million dollars. In mid-july, about an additional 97 million dollars for 1999-50 tobacco procurement was authorized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
