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The Daily. Thursday, March 29, 2001
Cigarette production saw a strong upsurge in February after slumping in January. Shipments increased as well, but to a lesser extent, and inventories grew marginally.
February production recovered to 3.7 billion cigarettes, compared with 2.9 billion in January. This represents an advance of 26%, although it was 1% below production in February 2000. For the two first months of 2001, total production was 6.6 billion cigarettes, down 11% from the same two months in 2000.
During February, 3.6 billion cigarettes were sold. Although sales grew 10% over January, they were 11% lower than February 2000 sales. Year-to-date sales, at 6.8 billion cigarettes, were 3% less than sales to the end of February 2000.
Inventories gained 2% and closed for February at 4.0 billion cigarettes, which was 2% lower than closing inventories in February 2000.
Available on CANSIM: matrix 46.
The February 2001 issue of Production and disposition of tobacco products (32-022-XIB, $5/$47) is now available. See How to order products.
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