根据美国雪茄协会公布的数据，今年1-7月份，美国进口的优质手工雪茄一共是2.528亿支，和2022年同期相比，进口量下降了3.4%，考虑到今年一季度的数据同比下降了8.8%，七月份的数据下降并不完全出乎意料。

美国仍然是全球最大的雪茄消费市场。尼加拉瓜是美国的第一大进口雪茄来源地，有1.391亿支雪茄，占55%。前七个月，多米尼加共和国的雪茄进入美国的数量是7290万支，占28.8%。洪都拉斯紧随其后，出货量是3980万支，占比15.7%。这三个国家的雪茄出货量占了美国雪茄进口量的99.5%。

这三个国家里，今年前七个月，出货量保持增长的是多米尼加，同比增长5%。尼加拉瓜、洪都拉斯的出货量较去年同期有所下降。

就单月份来看，今年的1、2月份和去年同期相差不大，3、4月份的雪茄进口量大幅度下降，5月份较去年同期增长了15%，6、7月份的进口量和去年同期基本接近。

2022年，美国进口雪茄的数量是4.644亿支，如果按照目前的进口下降趋势，今年美国的最终进口雪茄可能低于4.5亿支。

媒体把美国这几年雪茄销量的大幅度增长称为“新雪茄热潮”，和几年前相比，这几年的雪茄销售量确实令人深刻。2014年到2017年，美国全年的雪茄进口量不到2.4亿支。再往前翻到1997年，单年的进口量没有达到4亿支的。

虽然2023年还有几个月的时间，我们判断去年的雪茄进口会出现小幅放缓。

美国雪茄协会主席David M.Ozgo表示，考虑到经历了两年不同寻常的增长后，2023年进口放缓是可以接受的。

附原文：

Premium, handmade cigars are still pouring into the United States, but the latest data from the Cigar Association of America shows a decrease of 3.4 percent in imports when compared to the same period in 2022. The decrease is not entirely unexpected, but it wasn’t as pronounced as the decline in first quarter imports, which were down 8.8 percent.

Between January and July, 252.8 million handmade, premium cigars were shipped to the United States, which is the world’s largest market for cigars. Nicaragua remains the leading producer, with shipments of 139.1 million (55 percent of all imports). The Dominican Republic ranks second, with 72.9 million cigars shipped (28.8 percent market share) and Honduras is the third leading producer, with 39.8 million (15.7 percent). These three accounted for 99.5 percent of all shipments, showing the utter dominance of this trio of cigar-producing nations.

The Dominican Republic was the sole producer showing an increase for the first seven months of the year, with shipments up nearly five percent. Both Nicaragua and Honduras showed decreases.

Looking at the year so far, things have been up and down. January and February 2023 were very similar to the same months of 2022; March and April showed big declines (14 percent and 15 percent, respectively) and May showed a 13 percent increase over May 2022. June and July were statistically close to last year’s numbers. 

Cigar imports rose 1.8 percent in 2022, to 464.4 million cigars. If the current rate of decline would hold for the entire year, we would end up with just shy of 450 million cigars imported.

The years of substantial growth in American cigar sales has been dubbed “The New Cigar Boom.” While these numbers are down a bit from 2022 levels, they are still very impressive when compared to numbers from only a few years ago. Shipments for a full year were less than 240 million annually between 2014 and 2017. Before The New Cigar Boom, imports hadn’t reached the 400 million mark since 1997.

A small slowdown like this is expected—and many months of data remain before we can fully judge 2023. 

“While 2023 growth has been somewhat muted, it comes after two years of unusual growth,” says David M. Ozgo, president of the Cigar Association of America.