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Table 9.3
TOBACCO HARVEST BY PARISHES (Kilos)*
% var. % total
2017 2018 18/17 2018
Canillo 14,561.5 15,941.1 9.5 6.6
Encamp 10,271.7 29,374.0 186.0 12.2
Ordino 31,499.7 31,670.2 0.5 13.2
La Massana 44,797.4 41,623.2 -7.1 17.4
Andorra la Vella 27,688.6 30,070.5 8.6 12.5
Sant Julià de Lòria 80,510.7 79,854.7 -0.8 33.3
Escaldes-Engordany 10,233.6 11,362.9 11.0 4.7
Total 219,563.2 239,896.6 9.3 100

*Due to the situation caused by Covid-19 and the impossibility of exporting the tobacco, the harvest was totally destroyed this year, so there are no data for 2019.

Source: Department of Agriculture / Association of Andorran Tobacco Manufacturers (AFPTA).

Within the customs integration process that In 2019, minimum tobacco price
Andorra signed with the EU in 2017, the regulations were approved within
Andorran Government undertook not to the framework of the EU customs
increase the price differential between the
EU and Andorra, especially with neighbouring integration process.
states. In 2019, new regulations were passed
for new minimum tobacco prices, envisaging sanctions if the current price differential with
neighbouring countries were to increase and prohibiting special offers or gifts that would enable 81
tobacco products to be sold below the minimum public prices approved by the Government. Also,
on 12 December 2019, approval was given for Andorra to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (CMTC), which includes, among other measures, the
prohibition of advertising, promotion or sponsorship of tobacco and the requirement to adopt
measures against illegal trade.

Remember that the EU agreed to extend the preferential agreement on the customs integration
process for tobacco to 30 years, although from the seventh year, Andorra will have to start
to waive its current customs duties and adopt the EU acquis to arrive at zero customs duties.
In exchange for approval of the period of preferential treatment, Andorra must show that it
is diversifying the economy to reduce its economic dependence on tobacco and also that it is
fighting fraud and smuggling. The EU checks fulfilment of the agreement through a monthly report
that Andorra must send with data on quantities produced, imported, marketed and exported.
Moreover, Andorra must send a detailed annual report, and every five years there will be an audit.

As for apiaries, in 2019 there were 46, eight more than the previous year, with a total of 445
hives. 24 of the apiaries only keep bees while 22 also carry out apicultural activities. The Andorran economy: developments in the main sectors | IX. The primary sector

In 2019, numbers of livestock fell 17.2% – 4,789 In 2019 the numbers of sheep
heads were recorded, almost one thousand fell sharply.
less than in 2018 – a decline that breaks the
positive trend of the previous two years. This
can basically be explained in that the category of sheep is the most important, representing half
of the livestock, and shrank 26.8% in 2019 (892 fewer heads). Goat breeding also decreased
substantially (-24.2%), but these are less important as they only represent 6% of total livestock.
So did horse breeding (-3.6%), with 11% of the total. On the other hand, the numbers of cattle,
the second largest category with 32% of the total, increased 0.8% in 2019.