The government loses $366.4 million in tax revenue each year to tobacco smuggling.Read More
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From the point of view of Vietnam, it makes perfect sense to auction the high-quality, illicit cigarettes that it intercepts – and to make sure they end up in a country far away.Read More
According to World Health Organization figures, the prevalence of smoking in Vietnam is going to change only marginally between now and 2025.Read More
Cambodian tobacco growers were expecting their incomes to rise on the back of a duty-free trade deal with Vietnam, but they now suspect that any additional profit is not reaching them.Read More
What should be done with seized smuggled cigarettes when their numbers reach 20 percent of the market? Destroying them involves a cost; so why not auction them?Read More
Vietnam is setting a 500-tons quota on imports of ‘tobacco material’ from countries of the Eurasian Economic Union during each of the next three years.Read More
Vietnam’s law on the prevention and control of smoking takes effect on May 1, 2013, according to the Health Ministry, according to a story in VietnamPlus. The law, with five chapters and 35 clauses, regulates measures aimed Read More
Tobacco growers and their families in Vietnam have moved into new homes built for them under an Imperial Tobacco responsibility initiative. Project Symphony is the result of a collaboration between Imperial Tobacco Vietnam, its local Read More
Khanh Viet Corp. (Khatoco) of Vietnam officially opened its new threshing plant in Nha Trang City on Oct. 2, 2012. Participating in the ceremony were various government officials, multinational tobacco merchants/processors and representatives of Evans Mactavish, Read More