烟草在线据菲律宾星报报道编译　　总部位于伦敦的英美烟草公司（BAT）预计今年在菲律宾的香烟销量比决定要撤出菲律宾的2009年增加了3倍。

　　英美烟草菲律宾公司的公司法律事务处主管伯托·欧亨尼奥表示，在去年2月份在菲律宾重新推出好彩品牌后，公司预计销量将达到1.5亿支。

　　这个数量是2009年公司决定从菲律宾撤出好彩和登喜路品牌之前5000万支销量的三倍。

　　欧亨尼奥表示，公司期望年中在更多零售店中推出目前在7-11便利店出售的好彩品牌。

　　他补充道，英美烟草公司正在和其他的一些零售商就代理好彩品牌进行谈判，这包括诸如Puregold这样的公司。

　　欧亨尼奥提到，英美烟草公司支持众议院通过的甲米地省（Cavite）的众议员约瑟夫·埃米利奥提起的5727号法案，即通过采用单一税率来改变目前烟草和酒类产品的多个税率的特殊消费税系统，为政府国库增加600亿比索的收入。

　　这个法案旨在通过采取统一的税率使税收系统更简单，这将解决目前多个税率的特殊的消费税系统所带来的问题，如烟酒产品之间不公平的税收待遇问题。

　　该法案提出为统一香烟和蒸馏酒税率留出三年的过渡期。而发酵酒的税收系统将会在改革的第一年就被立即统一。

　　阿巴亚说，该法案的一个基本特征是使用国家统计办公室设立烟酒指数对税率进行自动调整。调整将会允许具体的税率与通货膨胀挂钩，并维持来自这方面的税收收入。

　　“这并不意味着进口产品将会更加便宜，但是意味着一切东西都将被征税。我们只是希望竞争环境公正和公平，老品牌与新品牌之间没有任何区别。”

　　该国的1000亿支香烟市场主要由瑞士的菲利普莫里斯公司和大亨陈永栽的福川烟草公司之间的合资公司所主导。

BAT eyes 3-fold hike in PH cigarette sales

The Philippine Star
04/23/2012

　　Malaysia - London-based British American Tobacco (BAT) is looking at a three-fold increase in the number of sticks it will sell in the Philippines this year compared to 2009 when it decided to pull out of the country.

　　BAT Philippines head for corporate and regulatory affais Roberto Eugenio said the company is looking at selling 150 million sticks after relaunching the Lucky Strike brand in the Philippines last February.

　　This is three times the 50 million sticks sold in 2009 before the company decided to pull out its Lucky Strike and Dunhill brands in the Philippines.

　　Eugenio said the company is looking at launching the Lucky Strike brand that is currently being sold in 7-11 convenence stores by the middle of the year.

　　He added that BAT is currently negotiating with other retailers including Puregold to carry the Lucky Strike brand.

　　According to Eugenio, BAT is supporting House Bill 5727 Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya of Cavite that seeks to change the current multi-rate specific structure of the excise tax on tobacco and alcohol products by adopting a unitary rate and raise additional P60 billion for the government coffers.

　　The proposal seeks to shift to a much simpler structure by adopting a unitary rate which would address problems attendant to the current multi-rate specific structure of the excise tax like unfair tax treatment between and among tobacco and alcohol products.

　　The bill proposes a three-year transition period in unifying the tax rates on cigarettes and distilled spirits. The tax structure for fermented liquor will be immediately unified on the first year of the reform.

　　An essential feature of the bill, Abaya said, is the automatic adjustment of the tax rates using the relevant National Statistics Office-established tobacco and alcohol indexes. The adjustment would allow the specific rates to track inflation and maintain the buoyancy of the revenues from this source.

　　"It doesn't mean imported products will get cheaper but it means that everything will be taxed. We just want it to be fair and level playing field and there should be no distinction between old brands and new brands," he explained.

　　The country's 100 billion stick cigarette market is dominated by the joint venture between Swiss-owned Philip Morris and Fortune Tobacco of tycoon Lucio Tan.