145:. He was charged with aiding the previous government. BTC was the most important agro-industrial firm in Burundi until 1989, when it was placed under government trusteeship. BTC struggled with high taxes on both its imports and its exports, which damaged its profitability. Later the government of Burundi restored BTC, intact, to Ayabatwa.
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In 2019 a South Sudan court ruled that
Mastermind of Kenya, the parent company of Mastermind Tobacco Uganda, could not export its Supermatch cigarettes to South Sudan in competition with Leaf. The Ugandan position was that they could "escort" Mastermind's cigarettes across Uganda to South Sudan, but
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to supply seed, fertilizer, pesticides, crop extension services, drying and processing, and to buy their tobacco at a price agreed upon in advance. The result was rapid growth in the number of tobacco farmers and the quantity produced. In the 1980s the
Burundi Tobacco Company (BTC) started to clear
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BTC was the only company making tobacco products in
Burundi in 2013, but imported all its tobacco. Before 2006 it was importing less than 100 tons per year, but in 2009 and 2010 imported over 500 tons per year. BTC exported most of its cigarettes to Uganda, with Rwanda the next largest market. In
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report noted that the company had in the past given subsidies to tobacco farmers in
Burundi for production and selling, but it was no longer doing so. Only 1,500–1,700 hectares (3,700–4,200 acres) of land was being used for cultivation of tobacco, and this was being used by farmers to make
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applied to register "Supermatch" as its trademark, but was refused by the
Registrar. In 2002 BTC said it had assigned the trademark to Mastermind Tobacco (Tanzania). The court ruled that BTC had abandoned the trademark, which should be granted to Tanzania Cigarette Company.
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In 1996 BTC let
Mastermind Tobacco Uganda Ltd. use its "Supermatch" trademark. In July 2002 BTC discontinued the arrangement on the grounds that Mastermind's cigarettes did not meet BTC's quality requiements. They transferred the trademark to
114:– 2024), started to import wheat, flour, salt and cigarettes into Burundi from Tanzania. By 1974 cigarettes were becoming his main import. In 1978 he decided to use his profits to manufacture cigarettes in Burundi rather than importing them.
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In 2005 a dispute over the "Supermatch" trademark was resolved against BTC by the High Court of
Tanzania. BTC had resistered the trademark in 1990, but did not renew it when it expired in 1997.
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