BREAKING Cuba aims to export 70 million cigars in 2025

While visiting the Vuelta Abajo, the president of Tabacuba unveils the official production targets for 2025: 80 million rolled cigars, 70 million of which will be exported.

“We need to produce more than 80 million cigars in the factories. And deliver more than 70 million for export,” declared Marino Murillo, president of Tabacuba, during a visit to the province of Pinar del Rio, reported on June 2 by the Cuban national television channel Canal Caribe.

The province, located in the west of the island, accounts for 65% of the country’s raw material production, while cigar exports, according to Marino Murillo, bring in more than $100 million in cash to the country.

According to our sources, cigar production for export was approximately 60 million units by 2024. The official target therefore represents a production increase of approximately 17%.

Tabacuba is the Cuban state-owned company that oversees all tobacco and cigar production on the island, from fields to factories. Tabacuba supplies Habanos S.A. with cigars for export. It also produces low-cost handmade cigars known as “de consumo nacional” (for domestic consumption) for the domestic market.