HAVANA, May 4 (Santiago Doubuché, UPECI) - Foreign tobacco merchants are showing an increasing preference for cured and packed tobacco leaf instead of finished cigars, said Leonardo Rosales, a technical-economic expert with Cuba's tobacco industry.

According to Rosales, the shift in demand has to do with decreasing quality of the cigars as well as the increasing availability of counterfeit cigars made in clandestine factories.

Japan has been the principal buyer lately; Spain, France and the United Kingdom have reduced their purchases of the Cuban product.

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