We have found that very often the relevant information about tobacco taxes in Africa was not readily available. We have therefore created a blog devoted to collecting data and information about Tobacco Taxes in Africa. Thank you for visiting and sharing with us the data and information you have or can find about this key element of an effective tobacco control strategy.
The picture is by Véronique Le Clézio (A landscape of South Africa)
Nous avons constaté que très souvent l'information de base à propos des taxes sur les produits du tabac en Afrique n'est pas disponible.
C'est pourquoi nous avons ouvert un blog consacré aux Taxes sur le Tabac en Afrique.
Merci de nous y rendre visite et de partager avec nous les informations dont vous disposez.
L'image est une reproduction d'un tableau de Véronique Le Clézio (Un paysage d'Afrique du Sud)
The FCA bulletin 79 for Saturday October 25 is available (pdf format) on their site.
Page 1: Full steam ahead
Page 2: The task for COP3
Page 3: Building an illicit tobacco trade protocol within the existing system of criminal justice, by Pr Neil Boister (School of Law, University of Canterbury, NZ)
Page 4: Usage de synonyme dans le trafic illicite de tabac: Mekako, savon ou cigarettes? par Patrick Musavuli
Page 5: Combating smuggling by controlling the supply chain, the case of Italy, by Luk Joossens and Martin Raw
See Progress in combating tobacco smuggling in Tobacco Control Journal (pdf) september 2008
Page 6: Free Trade Zones (FTZs): economic boon or haven for fraud, by John Colledge III
Picture from the blog of Patrick Musavuli
There was no Dirty Ashtray Award today.
The Orchid Award goes to the INB Bureau for a protocol for a way forward and to the many delegates who shared the commitment to the process by seeking technical work to be completed and calling for regional meetings before INB3.
The Dirty Ashtray Award goes to Canada and Japan for consistently trying to prevent mandatory provisions for the control of the supply chain
The Orchid Award goes to the EC and Rwanda for supporting the explicit inclusion of transit and free trade zones in the protocol.
The FCA Bulletin 77 is available (pdf format) on the FCA site.
Page 1: Co-ordination with other agencies needed, by Jonathan Liberman
Page 2: Smuggling tobacco leaf: tobacco leaf and machinery used in manufacture must be included in the treaty, by Yussuf Saloojee and John W Colledge III.
See 'Smuggling tobacco leaf in Malawi".
Page 3: Spotlight on smuggling: Lebanon
See "Smuggling as a key to a combined market: BAT in Lebanon" in Tobacco Control Journal.
Page 4: Il faut interdire la vente des produits du tabac duty-free. (Version française du texte de Rob Cunningham publié en anglais dans le bulletin 74 de lundi)
Page 5: UK death toll from illicit tobacco higher than from illegal drugs, by Deborah Arnott (see report)
Page 6: What about the global financial crisis, by Joy Townsend
see 'Why combating tobacco smuggling is a priority".
The picture is from Marty Otanez blog Sidewalkradio, devoted to exploited tobacco farmers (here from Malawi)
The Dirty Ashtray Award goes to all parties "which proposed the need for flexibility: a euphemism for weakening the protocol."
The Orchid Award goes to China "for recognizing the need to include tobacco leaf and tobacco manufacturing equipment in order to insure a strong protocol".
The FCA Bulletin 76 is available on pdf format on the FCA site.
Page 1: Key points for today's negotiations, by Jonathan Liberman
Page 2: Canada takes on illicit tobacco and organized crime, by Andrew Kerr
Page 3: Spotlight on smuggling: China
See "Key to the future: BAT and cigarette smuggling in China"
Page 4: NGOs mobilize in resistance to tobacco transnationals
See Network for Accountability for Tobacco Transnationals (NATT)
Page 5: Resources of effective protocol, by Deborah Arnott
Page 6: Thoughts on tracking and tracing, by John W Colledge III. On the public integrity site you can listen to several audio segments by John (mp3 format).
Image: one of the graphic warnings introduced in Australia in 2006
The Dirty Ashtray Award goes to Brazil "for its illogical and obstructionist positions which have slowed down negotiations this week". (FCA bulletin 76 page 6)
The Orchid Award goes to the Philippines "for recognizing that the tobacco industry should carry the cost of the implementation of the protocol".
Ce long article du Soir de Bruxelles expose en détail la mise en place et l'organisation de la contrebande des cigarettes Jin Ling à partir de la Russie.
La question sera-t-elle posée aux représentants de la Russie?
« En matière de commerce illégal de cigarettes, Jin Ling est le développement le plus inquiétant que nous connaissions, où que ce soit dans le monde », commente le Belge Luk Joosens, expert pour l'OMS en contrebande de tabac. « Ils inondent l'Europe ». (vidéo)
They have worked hard to produce this bulletin 75 (pdf format) posted at midnight on the FCA site.
Page 1: Time to move forward by Jonathan Liberman
Page 2: Spotlight on smuggling in Africa, reports about the article published in Tobacco Control Journal by Eric LeGresley whom we cyberinterviewed here.
Page 3: WTO: not a reason to not banning internet sales, by Benn McGrady.
Benn recently submitted a
PhD thesis (under examination) at Monash
University in Melbourne, titled ‘Trade and Tobacco Control: The
World Trade Organization and the Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control’.
Page 4: Addressing counterfeit in an illicit trade protocol, by Benn McGrady
Page 5: Le tabac et le terrorisme, version française de l'article d'Andrew Kerr publié hier en anglais.
Page 6: Dirty Ashtray and Orchid Award? Find the winners below.
The Dirty Ashtray Award goes to Barbados "for arguing there is no link between duty free and illicit trade when this link is well established (see yesterday's bulletin)."
The Orchid Award goes to Africa "for highlighting the need to overcome the disparity in capacity between the rich and poor countries if the protocol is to be implemented effectively".
Funded by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health journalists from the Center from Public Integrity have launched an international investigation about tobacco smuggling.
An investigative story (and video) published this day by the Guardian: "It shows that the Baltic Tobacco Company (BTC), apparently
Russian-owned, is manufacturing on a large scale a previously obscure
cigarette brand called Jin Ling. The firm based in Kaliningrad is selling them by the
container-load to smugglers at 20 US cents a packet. Smuggled Jin Ling,
resembling the US Camel brand in appearance, are coming to light across
Europe from Lithuania to Venice" ...
"Jin Ling is the most disturbing new development anywhere in the world in the illegal tobacco trade," said Luk Joossens, a World Health Organisation specialist. "They are flooding into Europe."
Image from Cigarettespedia
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Différentes marques de cigarettes sont vendues dans les marchés et
les boutiques de ces trois villes à des prix défiant toute concurrence
sans que les autorités des douanes sénégalaises interviennent pour
saisir cette marchandise issue de la fraude. Source: Le blog de Massamba Diouf 
Lors d’une tournée effectuée dans les régions
du Sud du Sénégal, à savoir Ziguinchor, Kolda et Tambacounda, il nous a
été donné de constater l’ampleur de la commercialisation de cigarettes
venant de Guinée Conakry qui entrent illégalement dans notre pays.
This article just published in Tobacco Control explains BAT's involvement in smuggling activities in Africa in the 1980s.
The map above that is included in the article is a map of 1987: "Flow and volume of BATUKE cigarettes via the contraband trade in West Africa (1987). Reproduced from the original document in the British American Tobacco Document Archive."
For BAT's point of view and most recent map.
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