Almost six billion cigarettes are smoked each year in Argentina

In Argentina, about 3,100 million cigarettes produced in the country are consumed in clandestine factories and about 2,600 million cigarettes are imported from Paraguay. According to a survey, 13.1% of smokers consumed products of illegal origin ignoring this condition. False stamps at low prices and without the payment of taxes is the main form of marketing.

Some 5.7 million cigarettes of illegal origin that are consumed throughout the country, the Argentine treasure loses to collect more than 8,000 million pesos in the year, according to studies prepared for the year. tobacco industry.

Among the brands detected with counterfeit stamps are Red Point, Melbour, Melbo, Rodeo, V8 and CJ. Low-cost products account for 4.5% of the cigarette market and have seen consumption growth over the past year due to the country's economic situation.

With respect to cigarettes truchos unknown and undeclared local goods are detected more and more frequently, which are sold in individual units or in unsealed packages in the same distribution.

A study conducted last year by consulting firm TNS Kantat to measure the penetration rate of illegal cigarettes in the Argentine market revealed that 13.1% of smokers used cigarettes of illegal origin In many cases ignore this condition.

In terms of volumes, this figure represents 14.2% of the market, with growth of 3.3 percentage points over the previous year. The marketing of illegal products is, in most cases, through the same official channel in which legal products are sold, and more than 80% of illegal cigarette consumers claim to have purchased them in kiosks or kiosks.

The metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires (GBA and CABA) concentrates 71% of the illegal market, while the north-east of the country shows growth in the illegal cigarette trade in 2017 and continues to be the region with level higher illegality (44.3% in terms of volume)

According to the data of this study, the marketing of cigarettes with falsified stamps at low prices and without payment of taxes is the main form of illegal trade in Argentina. [19659003]