Tendencies on the tobacco and tobacco products market

Abstract

 Leaf tobacco and its products are important products in international commodity trade occupy a leading position in the economy of some countries. The international leaf tobacco trade involves almost all world countries classified into tobacco exporting or tobacco importing countries.

The volume of tobacco production, processing and consumption in the world has made these products transcend the limits of national borders and become items of world importance. In this regard, there is a great pronounced impact of developed countries, North America in particular (the American continent is at the same the homeland of tobacco), in the processes of production, processing technology and marketing. Tobacco production development tendency has changed continually. Over a longer period tobacco industry predominated in developed countries, whereas in the last decade there has been an increasingly prominent tendency of translocating this industry into developing countries, which has induced a significant increase in tobacco leaf production in these countries. Central and Eastern Europe have turned into a very interesting region for tobacco production development. The paper gives a concise analysis of the current state and development tendencies on the tobacco and tobacco products world market.