摘要：In 1999, the United States exported about 189,000 tons of unmanufactured tobacco, valued at $1.3billion, this is down from 212,000 tons of leaf in 1998, and down from 221,000 tons in 1997. U.S. leafexports during this 10 year period have remained relatively flat, or maybe have even been trendinglower.When looking at U.S. leaf exports over the last 20 years and comparing this to world leaf imports overthis period you can definitely see that the United States is losing market share in the world leaf market. World imports shown here exclude imports by the United States and oriental tobacco. So, most ofwhat we see here is flue-cured and burley tobaccos.
