EU-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT COULD BRING BENEFITS FOR EUROPEAN ORIENTAL TOBACCO
November 3rd, 2013
THE RECENTLY concluded Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union (EU) and Canada may bring opportunities for European producers of Oriental tobacco, Antonio Abrunhosa, chief executive of the International Tobacco Growers’ Association (ITGA) has told Tobacco Journal International.This type of tobacco, whose EU production is concentrated in Bulgaria and Greece, could gain from improved access to the Canadian market, according to Mr Abrunhosa. Trade levels are currently low (only 7 tonnes of sun-cured Oriental tobacco were ...
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