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The overseas price of Chinese cigarettes is less than half of that in China, is this a leek that has cut smokers?
China's smokers are the most in the world, the cigarette industry is hugely profitable, and some strange phenomena have also been bred, you find no, ten or twenty years ago there were three pieces of five yuan a pack of low-priced cigarettes on the market, and now this kind of cheap cigarettes is basically not very available, and some people pointed out that domestic supermarkets want to sell 80 to 100 packs of domestic Chinese cigarettes, according to the exchange rate, in Japan it is only sold 20 a pack, less than half of the country, many people want to buy cheap cigarettes, and even have to go to Japan and South Korea to find someone to buy, so it also breeds cigarette scalpers, China is not our domestic brand, how can it be cheaper for the JapaneseDo you think that we are stupid and have a lot of money here? What is going on?
First of all, let's talk about the problem of the disappearance of low-priced cigarettes, three yuan and five yuan a pack of low-priced cigarettes, either discontinued, or increased in price, used to help the elders in the family buy cigarettes, and you can also see cheap cigarettes like "Hardman", now I basically can't find it with a magnifying glass, and the reason why low-priced cigarettes below ten yuan have disappeared is actually behind the policy.
First of all, with the reform of cigarette management, the quality of cigarette production has improved, in other words, the production cost of cigarettes has become higher and higher.
In the seventies and eighties of the last century, tobacco was not actually managed by the state, at that time the competition pattern of the national tobacco business was also relatively chaotic, some places for their own economic development considerations, the construction of a lot of tobacco companies, cigarette quality is not high, the market brands are mixed, not only disturbed the stability of the cigarette market, so there are a lot of low-priced cigarettes, and even counterfeit cigarettes.
After the 21st century, the state took into account the problem of cigarette quality and slowly strengthened the management of the cigarette industry. If you want good quality, you must start from the purchase of tobacco, and manpower and material resources must rise, which leads to the lack of many cheap cigarettes, especially after the establishment of tobacco stores, the price of cigarettes is getting more and more expensive. For ordinary people, a pack of cigarettes for three or five yuan is becoming less and less, and the vast majority of cigarettes on the market are basically more than ten yuan.
Another reason is that the government wants to control tobacco. China has the largest number of smokers in the world, with more than 300 million smokers out of a total population of 1.4 billion, not including those who passively smoke second-hand smoke, which is more than the total population of the United States. The large number of smokers has also caused many problems, and the number of deaths due to various diseases caused by smoking has reached more than 1.2 million every year, which can be said to be shocking.
In order to control tobacco and let smokers smoke less, the state has set heavy taxes on all kinds of cigarettes. For example, more than half of the retail price of a pack of Chinese cigarettes is tax, and in this case, low-priced cigarettes are even more unprofitable and can only slowly withdraw from the market.
Now that we have said that, let's discuss why the price of domestically produced Chinese cigarettes in Japan is only a quarter of that in Japan? There are also three reasons behind this.
The first reason, as I have mentioned above, is that there are a huge number of smokers in China, and in order to control smoking, our government not only puts the slogan "smoking is harmful to health" on the packaging of each pack of cigarettes, but also adds heavy taxes to all relevant enterprises in the entire cigarette industry chain. In this case, a pack of cigarettes that cost only a dozen or even a few yuan will eventually become a cigarette in the hands of smokers, and it will be worth a hundred times, and more than half of the price of a pack of cigarettes is tax.
However, in a country like Japan, the number of smokers itself is not large, and there is no such problem at all, and there will be no additional tax on Chinese cigarettes sold in Japan. In order to increase the number of cigarette exports and stimulate exports, we will even give certain tariff preferences to Japanese importers. After all, realistically speaking, selling cigarettes to other countries can sell a little more.
The second reason is the supply and demand structure of the Japanese cigarette market. Japan's cigarette market is different from that in China, you go to domestic stores to buy cigarettes, rarely see imported cigarettes, the most accepted by the people is still domestic cigarettes, the number of cigarettes imported from overseas every year is very small, it belongs to the choice of an absolute minority, many people want to smoke overseas cigarettes, but also find a way to buy, even if the price of domestic cigarettes is a little higher, still do not worry about not selling.
But in Japan, domestic cigarettes are originally foreigners, not only to face the competition of local cigarettes in the Japanese market, even if the Chinese cigarettes are known to Chinese, there is no advantage in Japan, and to compete with cigarette brands from India, Europe and the United States, in this case, can only attract consumers by reducing prices.
The third reason also depends on the concept of the Chinese. Cigarettes are high-end products in China, especially domestic high-end cigarettes like China, and even like Moutai, it is a good gift for visiting relatives and friends, you think about it, smoking Chinese and smoking a pack of cigarettes for ten yuan, can it be a feeling, high prices are the basis of face, these cigarette factories also understand this truth, and even intentionally or unintentionally will increase prices, resulting in a state of short supply.
In Japan, cigarettes do not have so much added value at all, but pure consumer goods, I really have never seen Japanese gifts to Chinese cigarettes, because of the difference in concepts, if Chinese cigarettes are sold in Japan as expensive as in China, I am afraid that no one cares.
Cigarettes are cheap to sell abroad, expensive to sell at home, and the same is true for oil. Some consumers pointed out that the price of oil exported by China to Southeast Asia is only half of that in China, which is about 3 yuan, but the same thing is sold for 7 to 8 yuan in China, which is also caused by different national conditions and policies.
There are thousands of reasons, for us ordinary people, it still feels a little less meaningful, a pack of Chinese cigarettes is sold overseas at less than half of the domestic price, can you accept it?