{"id":3146,"date":"2021-01-07T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2021-01-07T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:42:52","slug":"worlds-top-cigar-producer-enjoys-boom-amid-covid-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3146","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Top Cigar Producer Enjoys Boom Amid Covid Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<address class=\"lede-text-v2__byline\">Posted by\u00a0<a class=\"author-v2__byline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/AUuz_rVBXaI\/jim-wyss\" rel=\"author\">Jim Wyss<\/a><\/address>\n<div class=\"lede-text-v2__times\">On December 29, 2020<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Locked-down smokers around the world are proving to be a boon for the Dominican Republic\u2019s cigar and tobacco industry.<\/p>\n<p>Already the world\u2019s largest cigar producer, the Caribbean nation is on track to export a record $1 billion worth of tobacco products this year. That would represent a 6% jump over the $942 million it sold abroad in 2019, according to government figures.<\/p>\n<p>The cigar industry has emerged as a bright spot for the region\u2019s largest economy, which is expected to\u00a0<a title=\"cepal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cepal.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pr\/files\/table_press_gdp_preliminaryoverview2020-eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shrink\u00a0<\/a>5.5% this year, as its critical tourism and services sectors are hammered by coronavirus-related restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>As global cigar aficionados have been unable to frequent bars and restaurants, they\u2019re spending more money and time on their smoking habit, said Hendrik Kelner, the president of the\u00a0<a title=\"procigar\" href=\"https:\/\/procigar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Association of Dominican Cigar Manufacturers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-12-29\/world-s-top-cigar-producer-enjoys-boom-amid-covid-lockdowns\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by\u00a0Jim Wyss On December 29, 2020 Locked-down smokers around the world are proving to be a boon for the Dominican Republic\u2019s cigar and tobacco industry. Already the world\u2019s largest cigar producer, the Caribbean nation is on track to export a record $1 billion worth of tobacco products this year. That would represent a 6%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}