Effective
January 1, 2006, FAS will no longer provide new attaché reports or
supply-and-demand statistics for tobacco. The tobacco supply-and-use
database currently available via the
FAS PSD Online
system will continue to be available for historical data, but no updates
or new data will be added after 2005.
Previous
attaché reports will also be accessible via the
FAS public Web site. The final issue of the
FAS electronic publication
Tobacco: World
Markets and Trade was published in September 2005. References to
alternative sources of tobacco data were included in the
September
publication.
The scope of this
decision is limited to statistical information including attaché reports; other
agency activities are unaffected.