Market & legal data for business in the global tobacco sector in Paraguay

3rd September 2024: Paraguay: Tomorrow (4th September), the Senate will debate a bill, introduced by a single member of the parliament from the ruling party, that would comprehensively regulate heated tobacco products (HTPs), regardless of their nicotine content. Provisions would include product and ingredient restrictions (similar to the ones envisaged in the European Tobacco Products Directive), reporting obligations, labelling requirements and advertising, age and public usage restrictions
20th June 2024: Paraguay: The Chamber of Deputies has rejected an initiative proposed by two deputies from the main opposition party, the Authentic Radical Liberal Party, that would have increased the tax on tobacco products – including heated and oral tobacco – by 2 percentage points, from 22% to 24% of their retail price.
7th March 2023: Paraguay: MP José Rodríguez said yesterday that his Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico (PLRA), the largest opposition party, will press for the excise duty on tobacco products, including heated and oral tobacco, to be raised to 24% of the wholesale price – the highest rate allowed by law, press reports. The government recently raised the duty from 20% to 22% of the wholesale price.
27th February 2023: Paraguay: Last week, the government issued Decree 8878, according to which the applicable tax for heated and oral tobacco products has increased from 20% to 22% of the wholesale price.
2nd February 2023: Paraguay: Opposition member of the Chamber of Deputies José Rodríguez said that he will present a bill in Parliament seeking to increase the tax on tobacco products – including heated and oral tobacco – from 20% to 24% of the wholesale price, press reports.
17th January 2023: Paraguay: Opposition senator Pedro Santa Cruz has written to president Mario Abdo Benítez urging him to increase the tax on tobacco products, including heated and oral tobacco, from 20% to 22% of the wholesale price, with proceeds to go to the National Cancer Institute (Incan).
21st December 2022: Paraguay: The Ministry of Health warned yesterday (20th December) about the health risks associated with heated tobacco and chewing tobacco products. The ministry considers that “heated tobacco products are equally harmful as traditional cigarettes”, and calls for the enactment of a law that regulates heated tobacco products given their increasingly widespread use among the population. Paraguay’s broad tobacco framework currently covers heated tobacco products.
22nd July 2022: Paraguay: On 18th July 2022 president Mario Abdo approved Paraguay’s ratification of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, an international treaty adopted in 2012 by parties to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) with the objective of eliminating all forms of illicit trade in tobacco products. The country’s accession to the protocol might pave the way for the future enactment of new requirements applicable to tobacco products.
8th July 2022: Paraguay: On 6th July the Chamber of Deputies approved the country’s ratification of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, an international treaty adopted in 2012 by parties to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The ratification was approved by the Senate on 23rd May 2022, as we previously reported on, and it now awaits the president’s approval or veto.
23rd May 2022: Paraguay: The Senate last week approved the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, an international treaty adopted in 2012 by parties to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The matter now moves on to the Chamber of Deputies, whose approval is required before Paraguay ratifies the treaty.
22nd March 2022: Paraguay: The government is currently discussing with the Senate the immediate enactment of a bill that would increase the tax on tobacco products from 20% (in force since February) to 22%, press reports. The tax rise is in response to the government’s plan to subsidise oil in order to keep its price stable.
9th March 2022: Paraguay: The National Health Surveillance Authority (DINAVISA) confirmed to TobaccoIntelligence that nicotine pouches are regulated by Decision 153/2021 on requirements to register e-cigarettes and other nicotine delivery systems and that they must not be encompassed within the definition of “tobacco products” of Law 5.538/2015. As a result, tobacco-free pouches are subject to the same notification requirements and labelling restrictions as electronic cigarettes.

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