WTO TRADE FACILITATION AGREEMENT WILL HELP MOVE LEAF AND MANUFACTURED PRODUCT WORLDWIDE
February 1st, 2014
THE WORLD’S tobacco trade is not always a straightforward affair, being held up by export and import licence applications, port dues, quality checks, corruption and unusual red tape. A new World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Trade Facilitation, struck last December, is designed to ease some of these difficulties.The world’s major tobacco leaf growing countries - China, India, Brazil, the US, Turkey, Zimbabwe and Malawi – are not always the main locations of cigarette production so that on any given day a vast volume of tobacco leaf is in ...
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