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 this 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.
All the data provided in Tables 2–16 is
available from the FAS US Trade Internet System at
http://www.fas.usda.gov/ustrade/
Data on tariff-rate quota updates provided in Table 17 is
available at
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/
The scope of this
decision is limited to statistical information including attaché reports; other
agency activities are unaffected.