{"id":57290,"date":"2014-09-22T21:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=57290"},"modified":"2014-09-22T21:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:23:56","slug":"us600-million-in-cigar-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/09\/22\/us600-million-in-cigar-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"US$600 million in cigar exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Dominican Tobacco Institute (Intabaco) is projecting that total cigar exports will reap US$600 million by year&#8217;s end. Juan Francisco Caraballo, director general of Intabaco said that 3.5 billion cigars were exported last year, and that the forecast for this year 4 billion, as reported in Diario Libre. He said that tobacco is now the country&#8217;s main cash crop and that 89% of cigars are machine rolled, the rest being the premium hand-rolled variety. <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/noticias\/2014\/09\/22\/i802341_exportacin-cigarros-supera-us600-millones.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Tobacco Institute (Intabaco) is projecting that total cigar exports will reap US$600 million by year&#8217;s end. Juan Francisco Caraballo, director general of Intabaco said that 3.5 billion cigars were exported last year, and that the forecast for this year 4 billion, as reported in Diario Libre. He said that tobacco is now the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/09\/22\/us600-million-in-cigar-exports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[233,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}