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Jump to full article: Tobacco Journal International, 2003-03-18
Intro: After as many as four international tobacco exhibitions staged in Russia last year, two in Moscow and St Petersburg in spring, and two in Moscow in autumn with an interval of just one month, organisers of the Tabak Expo Russia decided to cancel this year's show and to postpone it for a year. Similar word is heard about ITE's Tabacex 2003 initially planned for September, though no formal cancellation has been announced so far. . .
The first reading of a newly drawn bill on the state monopoly in tobacco turnover is due to be held in the Russian Duma during an additional plenary session. The document submitted by the committee for economic policy is designed to prevent unfair competition in tobacco and cigarette wholesales in the country, and to secure higher budget proceeds from the so-called unitarian government-owned enterprises solely entrusted with tobacco wholesales. . .
Estonian customs officers seized a large batch of Russia-made contraband cigarettes. . . .
The Ros Business Consulting new service reports that by the year 2010 Moldova is planning a 370 per cent increase of raw tobacco manufacturing, so as to bring the annual output to 45 million kilos.
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