From transit hub to major supplier of illicit cigarettes to Argentina and Brazil: the changing role of domestic production and transnational tobacco companies in Paraguay between 1960 and 2003

Table 1 The rise of Paraguay as an illicit transit hub from the US to Argentina in the 1960s

Year	Cigarette production in Paraguay (million sticks)	US legal cigarette exports to Paraguay (million sticks)	Estimated cigarette contraband in Argentina (million sticks)^a
1951–60 avg	494	No Data	520
1961	435	169	3200
1962	480	49	200
1963	422	204	2000
1964	520	684	2400
1965	598	967	1600
1966	574	1270	2400
1967	418	1423	3000
1968	366	1770	3800
1969	346	742	4000
1970	366	574	3600
1971	400	560	3200
1972	640	216	800
1973	620	549	1800
1974	630	865	1000
1975	640	783	No data
1976	650	804	No data
1977	No data	684	No data
1978	No data	856	No data

Sources: Cigarette Production in Paraguay: USDA, Foreign Agriculture Service, World Tobacco Analysis: Consumer Marketing, February, 1958
USDA, Foreign Agricultural Circular-Tobacco, various years, 1958-77
US legal cigarette exports to Paraguay: USDA, Foreign Agricultural Circular-Tobacco, various years, 1960-63
USDA, Foreign Agricultural Circular-Tobacco, various years, 1963-1978
USDA, Economic Research Service, Tobacco Situation, various years 1967-1990
^aEstudio Sur, Estudio de la demanda de tabaco nacional , Buenos Aires, 1975, Cuadro A-17: 24 and Anexo C, Cuadro C-4: 81

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