Ref. Ares(2017)4031279 - 14/08/2017
[SUMMARIZED TRANALATION]
○ Manufactured Tobacco List Price Law (Law No. 122 of June 3, 1965; as amended)
Final Amendment: March 31, 1983
(Types and maximum prices of manufactured tobacco)
Article 1
The types of manufactured tobacco (hereinafter referred to as the “Manufactured Tobacco”) manufactured by the Japan
Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”) shall be cigarettes, flaked tobacco, pipe tobacco and
cigar tobacco, and the maximum prices by grade for each of these types are stipulated as follows.
Type
Grade
Quality
Unit
Price
The product is prepared using high
quality leaf tobacco as the main raw
1st
ingredient, which is combined with
grade
other carefully selected raw leaf 10 cigarettes
110 yen
product tobacco to produce a high grade
brand
which
maintains
Cigarettes
distinctiveness and character
The product is prepared using high
2nd
quality and medium quality leaf
grade
10 cigarettes
85 yen
tobacco as the main raw ingredient,
product which is combined with other
selected raw leaf tobacco to produce
a
medium-grade
brand
which
maintains distinctiveness
3rd
The product is prepared using
grade
medium quality and low quality leaf 10 cigarettes
60 yen
product tobacco as the main raw ingredient
The product is prepared using
3rd
medium quality and low quality leaf
Flaked tobacco grade
10 grams
30 yen
tobacco for flaked tobacco which is
product the main raw ingredient
The product is prepared using
carefully selected and specially
1st
processed high quality leaf tobacco
grade
as the main raw ingredient, to 10 grams
142 yen
product produce a high grade brand which
maintains
distinctiveness
and
Pipe tobacco
character
The product is prepared using
2nd
selected and specially processed high
grade
10 grams
82 yen
quality and medium quality leaf
product tobacco as the main raw ingredient to
produce a medium-grade brand
which maintains distinctiveness
The product is prepared using high
1st
quality leaf tobacco for cigar tobacco
grade
as the main raw ingredient to produce One cigar
410 yen
product a high grade brand which maintains
distinctiveness and character
Cigar tobacco
The product is prepared using
2nd
medium quality and low quality leaf
grade
One cigar
120 yen
tobacco for cigar tobacco as the main
product raw ingredient
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the Corporation manufactures cigarettes that are prepared by using
particularly high quality leaf tobacco as the main raw ingredient and combining it with other carefully selected raw leaf tobacco to
produce a high grade brand which maintains distinctiveness and character, then the maximum price of that product shall be 190 yen per
ten cigarettes.
Article 2
(Intentionally Omitted)
Article 3
(Intentionally Omitted)
(Public Notice)
Article 4
When the Corporation determines and gives public notice of the list prices of the Manufactured Tobacco pursuant to
Article 34, Paragraph 1 of Tobacco Monopoly Law (Law No. 111 of 1949; as amended), the Corporation shall concurrently publicize
types, grades and standard specifications of the Manufactured Tobacco.
Supplementary Provisions
1. This law shall come into force from the date of promulgation of the law.