Excerpt from Tobacco Production and Trade in Southern Africa Domestic consumption accounts for about million pounds of Malawi's leaf output and the balance is exported. All leaf consumed domestically is flue cured. There are no-taxes or subsidies on leaf tobacco exports. Malawi will retain its preference for exports to the United Kingdom until negotiations for EC associate status are concluded. If Malawi is accorded associate membership, its tobacco will enter the EC duty free. Negotiations are scheduled to be completed ...
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Excerpt from Tobacco Production and Trade in Southern Africa Domestic consumption accounts for about million pounds of Malawi's leaf output and the balance is exported. All leaf consumed domestically is flue cured. There are no-taxes or subsidies on leaf tobacco exports. Malawi will retain its preference for exports to the United Kingdom until negotiations for EC associate status are concluded. If Malawi is accorded associate membership, its tobacco will enter the EC duty free. Negotiations are scheduled to be completed by February 1975. Even if Malawi does not get EC preferential treatment for tobacco exports, flue and burley ship ments are still expected to continue to increase in competition with us. Tobaccos. If Malawi does receive such treatment from the ec, competition is expected to become even keener. Malawian exports in 1960-64 averaged about 26 million pounds, rising to an average of nearly 35 million for the next 5 years. During 1971-73 they averaged 54 million pounds. Imports have also generally increased. Averaging just pounds in the 1960-64 period, they climbed to 8 million pounds in 1973. This is mostly tobacco brought from Zambia to Malawi for processing and reexport. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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