Tobacco license is divided into several levels

The tobacco license itself is not graded. However, the company will refer to the sales volume of customers into three categories without stars, two categories without stars, one category without stars, one star (600 items per quarter), two stars (800 items per quarter), three stars (1,200 items per quarter) and At special supply points (including large stores), it is very difficult for ordinary customers to upgrade to four stars.

Extended information:

"Tobacco Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 5: The Tobacco Monopoly Bureau is the agency that handles tobacco monopoly licenses , responsible for the acceptance, review, approval and management of tobacco monopoly licenses.

Article 6 The following tobacco monopoly licenses shall be accepted and reviewed by the provincial tobacco monopoly bureau, and approved by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration:

(1) Tobacco monopoly production enterprise license, the applicant is Legal persons or other organizations engaged in the production and processing of tobacco specialty products;

(2) Tobacco monopoly wholesale enterprise license, the applicant is a legal person engaged in the wholesale business of cigarettes and cigars, operating across provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government or other organizations;

(3) Tobacco monopoly wholesale enterprise license (operation), the applicant is engaged in tobacco leaves, re-cured tobacco leaves, cut tobacco, cigarette paper, filter rods, tobacco tow, and tobacco special machinery Legal persons or other organizations operating business;

(4) Special tobacco monopoly business enterprise license, the applicant is an enterprise engaged in the import and export business of tobacco monopoly products, the wholesale business of duty-free tobacco products, or the auction business of confiscated tobacco products, Or prefecture-level tobacco companies that engage in the wholesale business of foreign tobacco products and confiscate the wholesale business of foreign tobacco products.

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