—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. October 7, 1972
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U.S. Tobacco - Prices Up on Same Output
About the same size U.S.
tobacco crop this year and a
reduced carryover point to a 3
per cent decline in the
supply for 1972-73, according
to a recent report from the
USDA’s Economic Research
Service.
Although down for the eighth
straight year, the estimated
supply of 5.2 billion pounds
remains adequate, because of
declining use and increasing
imports. This year’s crop is an
estimated 1.73 billion pounds
(U.S. and Puerto Rico). Acreage
is up 1 percent and yields are
about unchanged.
Carryover of tobacco for the
new season (beginning July 1 for
flue-cured and cigar wrapper
types; October 1 for others) is
down about 5 percent.
Disappearance in 1972-73 may
total slightly below the 1.9 billion
pounds of the year just ending. In
the big volume flue-cured sector
sharply higher prices are
limiting exports. For Maryland,
fire-cured, and cigar filler
tobaccos, reduced supplies mean
cuts in domestic use.
U.S. cigarette output this fiscal
year is expected to exceed the 593
billion cigarettes produced in
1971-72. Population is increasing
and consumer incomes are
rising
Persons 18 and older will
smoke slightly more cigarettes in
calendar 1972 than last year’s 202
packs per capita By contrast,
stability characterizes the
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With supplies reduced and
prices higher, leaf exports this
fiscal year may decline from last
season’s 524 million pounds (584
million, farm-sales weight).
This year’s flue-cured crop has
been actively sought by West
Germany and Japan. The United
Kingdom, a major U.S. export
destination, decreased its takings
in 1971-72 but may maintain that
level this season. Britain con
tinues its Rhodesian trade em
bargo.
U.S. manufacturers’ stocks of
imported cigarette types of
tobacco last July 1 represented
2% years’ usings. With foreign
tobaccos enjoying a price ad
vantage, U.S. tobacco imports for
ciagrettes in 1972-73 may rise
above last season’s 198 million
pounds. The past season’s in
crease was 29 million pounds.
U.S. cigar manufacturers in
1971-72 used about two-thirds
foreign-grown tobacco and one
third domestic tobacco in cigars.
Despite sagging sales, cigar
manufacturers may again in
crease the share of imported
tobacco.
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announce the 1973 national
marketing quota for flue-cured
tobacco on an acreage-poundage
basis. Individaul farm quotas and
allotments will reflect over
marketings and
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