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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 ...

U.S. District Court Denies Premium Cigar Industry Request to U.S.

October 9, 2025

District Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani denied the premium cigar industry’s emergency request to delay California’s Unflavored Tobacco List (UTL) Oct. 9 application deadline. The judge’s ...

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 ...

Tabacalera USA CEO Javier Estades Re-elected Cigar Association of America Chairman

November 15, 2023

Javier Estades, CEO of Tabacalera USA, was re-elected chairman of the Cigar Association of America at the association’s recent annual meeting. “I am excited to ...