The Nigerian government is coming under pressure because of a planned three-year program of tax increases on tobacco products and alcohol.Read More
It has become known that cigarette smuggling is a major issue in the Philippines because the big tobacco manufacturers are complaining.Read More
A major opportunity is arising for an entrepreneur to start or enlarge a cigarette factory in the UK, with its major brand perhaps being linked to the Brexit name.Read More
South Korea’s overseas sales of cigarettes, which had been climbing steeply in recent years, have taken a knock from a huge tax increase imposed by its major export customer.Read More
It is often the cry of businesses and industries that ‘change’ should be warmly embraced because it leads to new opportunities. But change trade tariffs and the reaction is different.Read More
It must be difficult to devise rational, cigarette-trade policies when one group puts the illegal trade at more than 40 percent of the market and another group puts it at under nine percent.Read More
The main weapon for battling the illegal trade in tobacco products seems to be locked away in an international protocol that was adopted in November 2012 but that has yet to enter into force.Read More
The illegal trade in cigarettes in Thailand more than doubled recently and illicit cigarettes are expected to become a rising force in the future. It’s predictable given the country’s tax policies.Read More
Tobacco growers in Pakistan are threatening to start a campaign of agitation unless the government changes its stance on tobacco imposts.Read More
Stories about the illegal trade in tobacco products tend to emphasize the costs of this trade, but nothing will change unless the causes of it are addressed honestly.Read More
