New Britain herald., 1929-03-02
U. 5, CIGARETTES
 POPULAR IN CHINA
70 Per Cent of Eleven Billion Exported Go to That Country
By GEORGE IT. MANNING


 ,Wasning.on Correspondent. x. 5. Heraiil
 Washington. |, C, Mar. 2--The United States exported over 11,7uG.- u0o, ,G00 cigarettes during 1928, is compared with seven billion ill 1927. and an annlal average Of 1l,l1%,- ep0,QO0 for the 10 years following the war. according 10 figures made public today hy the tobacco section of the United States Department of Commerce.
 American cigarettes are sold ln .-arly every country on the g-oh9. ut over n per oeut Of the trade in the commodity s with China. The sales 10 that country during the year We're valued a S14,27S.oQo. or .tearly double rhe figHre for l9-I.
 The Philippine Islands rank next to China as a market for American cigarettes. surpa the British Nalaya, during 1928 Other markets which showed development Were Canada, France. and siam. Panama is also an important purchaser of the product, although exports to that country declined in 1928 by more than r por cent.
 Cigarette producuon in registered factories, which virtually equals the domestic production, passed the nundredth billion mark for the frs, lime in l42S, amOucting 10 lQ5,- u27.9Gu Ono. This figure comes as 10 surprise 70 the industry. accord iug to the report as cigarette pro- 1uction in the United States has had q steady upward trend since go. with an average annual in- crease oS approximately T:S billions.
 This lr .gease in production, the report states, was stimulated by price reductions and intensive ad- ertising can paigns during the year. l. points out also that the increased earnings reported by most Of the larger companies supsrantlates a be- ief that the reduction In the profit margin was more than offset by the resulting increase in sales.
 The total tobacco products trade tor the calendar year 1928 reflects a material increase In value of more -han 4 per cent over 1927, amount .nz to s25.287.000. Seven-ej ejghths of the total trade ir tobacco products ras made up of cigarettes, valued tt s22,05I,00o.
 Cigar Industry
 Production in the cigar Industry is more settled, and turned out 6:9 ast year, as compared with an an- nual average of seven billions. Few American cigars are exported, and on the other hand. over 3GA,000,b0o n number enter the United States ,!uty-free from Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands,
 The popularity Of the cigar, the Department of Commerce reports, is greater here than in any other country in the world. and the best ,.ller or the American market rc- .ails for five cents. Nearly 50 per ,ent of the consumption in 1928 as Of cheap cigars.
 Chewing Tobacco Trade
 Tn the export trade, chewing O. .,acco ranks next to cigarettes in Importance, exports in 1928 amount i.g to 3,S&2.09o pounds in 1928, yalued at s1,861,421, a slight in- erease over 1927.
 Australia. Philippine Islands, Can ada. United Kingdom, Cuba, and New Zealand. in the order of their importance in the trade, took three 1orrths of the total plug exports IT. 1928.
 It 1. reported also that approXi- mately 2j0 million pounds of smok- ing tobacco Is produced ln the Unit d States annually ani the annual sxports amount 70 little more than q million pounds.
 The gradual and consistent in- crease in the consumption Of snuff T the United States las been one of he narvets of the trade
 Snuff production in i928 amount d 10 40, G65,Q pounds, an increase or about 500. 100 pounds over th production in 1927. and there has been an annual increase Of 5"o,vQ9 pounds since 1913. As no snuff O. importa nee IS exported, the whole production is consumed in the Unit ed States.
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