Canada losses 52 million in taxes from fake Cuban Cigars
Source: “Sometimes a cigar is just a fake,” CBC Marketplace, November 4, 1997.
80,000 to 100,000 boxes of fake Cuban Cigars enter Canada annually
Source: “Sometimes a cigar is just a fake,” CBC Marketplace, November 4, 1997.
25,000 boxes of counterfeit cuban cigars seized in 2005
Source: Pravda.ru, “25,000 boxes of counterfeit cuban cigars seized in 2005,” Havana Journal, May 30, 2006.
Counterfeit Cuban Cigars Market Value: $100 Million
Counterfeit Cuban Cigars are fake cigars that are sold under Cuban brand names.
Hundred of millions of dollars are believed to be lost to counterfeit Cubans annually.
Source: Doreen Hemlock, ” Beware of cigar imposters” , South Florida Sun-Sentinel, April 9, 2006.
80 to 90 percent of cuban cigars sold in the US are counterfeit
Cigar Aficionado estimates that 80 to 90 percent of Cuban Cigars sold in the United States are counterfeit cigars.
Source: James Suckling, “Cuba’s Cigar Summit,” Cigar Aficionado,May/June 1999,(accessed: June 8, 2005).
South Florida is the capital of counterfeit cuban cigars
Due to its geographic location, South Florida is considered to be the capital of counterfeit Cuban cigars.
Source: Christina Hoag, ” Stamping out counterfeit cigars” , Miami Herald, April 24, 2006.
