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Originally Posted by Totemic

Ok, how about cigars grown, produced and distributed from some other non-Cuban nation with zero presence in the US?

They shouldn't be subject to these taxes no?

I wouldn't think so, but I'm finding the probability that that they would let that be exempt unlikely. Just as you're supposed to declare out-of-state purchases for your state taxes, I suppose you'll be responsible for declaring out-of-country purchases on your federal/state taxes, like the Canadians. But I was making a joke, because I wasn't familiar with any "overseas purchases" of a non-Cuban nature...

@alley00p
The "bulk cigarette tobacco" tax hike is for roll-your-own. I assume this was a "compromise" with Big Tobacco for the comparative leniency on the tax hike for manufactured cigarettes. People won't stop buying cigarettes for a dollar more per pack; I see people buying Marlboro reds for $4.60 a pack, when the place down the street has Davidoff cigarettes for $1.68 a pack. However, the roll-your-own guys will likely be jived out of their thing with that tax increase; one of the perks of RYO was its thrift...$40 for a $15 bag of tobacco, might as well just go get a carton of Pall Mall Unfiltered and be done with it...