Bill to aid tobacco farmers hinges on a windfall for landowners
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Congress is readying legislation to give the Food and Drug Administration control over cigarettes. The bill includes a $12 billion buyout of tobacco quotas. Most of the quotas are owned by non-farmers, heirs of the original owners.
Publisher: Dow Jones Publishing Co. (Europe)
Publication Name: Wall Street Journal. Europe
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0921-9986
Year: 2004
Government expenditures, TOBACCO PRODUCTS, Tobacco farms, Tobacco industry, Government finance, Tobacco farmers
Publication Name: Wall Street Journal. Europe
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0921-9986
Year: 2004
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Wine sales thrive as old barriers start to crumble
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Wine sales are increasing as the old rules governing wine marketing are being struck down. Previously, alcoholic beverages could only be sold to w holesalers licensed by the state, who then sold them to licensed retailers.
Publisher: Dow Jones Publishing Co. (Europe)
Publication Name: Wall Street Journal. Europe
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0921-9986
Year: 2006
Sales & consumption, Marketing procedures, Retail Trade, Wines, brandy, and brandy spirits, Wine & Brandy, Wineries, Wine, Retail industry, Marketing, Wine industry, Company marketing practices, Industry sales and revenue
Publication Name: Wall Street Journal. Europe
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0921-9986
Year: 2006
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Subjects list: United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation
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