Then who ends up being the customer of tobacco produced in North Carolina?
Damn good question. From what I can tell, it is grower specific... like burley directed to chewing tobacco. Cigarettes.... zimbabwe. Rolling leaf for quality cigars still comes from CT as it has for many years. Not well informed beyond that.
Was just amazed they would get tobacco from a marxist nightmare country... because the cash is raked off by mugabe to Switzerland.