Cigar Rights of America
Boutique Cigar Association Announces Dissolution and Full Alignment with Leading National Trade Associations
November 21, 2025
The Boutique Cigar Association, active since 2016, has dissolved its board. “With strong political and economic headwinds ahead, our industry can no longer afford to ...
USTR Issues Section 301 Determination on Nicaragua With Potential Impacts on the Premium Cigar Industry
October 22, 2025
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has announced that “Nicaragua’s acts, policies, and practices related to abuses of labor rights, abuses of human ...
PCA, CRA, and Manufacturers Challenge California’s UTL in Federal Court
October 6, 2025
Several industry trade groups and cigar companies have sued California’s Attorney General over a looming cigar registration list, or UTL. The Unflavored Tobacco List is ...
Trump Administration Tariffs have Implications for Premium Cigar Imports
April 4, 2025
According to the Cigar Rights of America, the new tariff’s announced this week by President Trump will impact premium cigars imported from the Dominican Republic ...
Generation NOÂ
October 8, 2024
Anti-tobacco politicians turn authoritarian, push generational bans at home and overseas. You’d think the U.S. could export something better than a generational ban on premium ...
International Tobacco Control Event Convenes In Panama
February 7, 2024
Delegates from over 180 countries are gathered in Panama City to start the 10th conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco ...
CRA Announces New Executive Director, Mike Copperman
January 5, 2024
The Cigar Rights of America has appointed legislative affairs director Mike Copperman as the organization’s new executive director. Copperman will remain in his current position ...
Tony Gomez Appointed to the CRA Board of Directors
September 11, 2023
Tony Gomez, vice president of La Flor Dominicana, has been appointed to the Cigar Rights of America board of directors. Gomez, whose appointment is effective ...
Regulations Fully Vacated for Premium Cigars
August 10, 2023
A federal judge this week removed a determination by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that sought to regulate premium cigars as it would other ...
Judge Rules Against FDA in Regulation Lawsuit
July 6, 2022
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must provide solid reasoning as to why it should regulate premium cigars, a federal judge said this week in ...
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