Within 10 months of this year Azerbaijan produced 1 657 800 000 cigarettes, which is 2.4 times more than in the comparable period of 2013. Improved production performance of European Tobacco-Baku.
According to the State Statistics Committee, in January-October this year, the volume of production of tobacco products totaled 20,850,800 packets, which is twice the figure for the same period last year. A certain portion of production accounted for the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, namely LLC Cahan Tobacco.
Manufacturers make out in the accounting documents for a packet of cigarettes 25 gepiks, while local retail of a packet of cigarettes goes on not less than 60 gepiks (including VAT).
The State Customs Committee recorded in the first half of this year, imports of 300 million packets of cigarettes, which is declared in the average price of 56 cents. In retail foreign cigarette brands are available at a price not less than 1.2 manats.
The main part of the imported cigarettes comes from the CIS countries. For example, in the first half of this year from foreign countries were imported 429.1 million cigarettes (21.4 million packets) worth $ 15.6 million. --08B--
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