The Georgian cigarettes will rise in price

The company «Agro Prospect» (Kiev) — Company British-American Tobacco – Ukraine »has brought charge of Georgia that it breaks a trading mode.

In the Ministry of Economics of Ukraine the statement for this fact and after that economic department of Ukraine has put forward claims to the WTO has arrived.

As a result the government of Georgia has been compelled to fix legislatively equal rates of the duty, both for import tobacco products, and that are made on territory of the country. The Georgian tobacco companies have reacted to an innovation sharply negatively.

The director of Georgian company Best Tobacco, whose production is a ruler of cigarettes MT, Super, "Kolhi", "Chibuhi", "Tonic", has noticed that increase of the excise for the domestic Georgian manufacturer means losses and curtailment of production.

The head of the company «Georgian tobacco» which is the manufacturer of cigarettes of "Pirveli", "Daniel", "Konferans" and "Insklap", considers that the excise increase will automatically strike on cheap cigarettes. The prices for tobacco products will begin from 1,5 chests for a pack. Local manufacture will appear under the threat of closing.

The general director of company OGT considers that at present at low excise rates on local tobacco contraband is shown to a minimum. The excise increase will generate a wave of illegal deliveries that, in turn, will negatively affect receipt of means in the budget.