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Leaf grades

Unmanufactured tobacco, offered by style and crop year.

Four export styles from Pakistan. Look freely — each page states the cure, the typical manufacturing use, and how we pack. If you buy, the offer is written against your brief.

Flue-cured Virginia leaf

Bright leaf · cigarette filler

Flue-cured Virginia

Flue-cured Virginia is the leaf most international manufacturers specify from Pakistan. Grown in the established belts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — Swabi, Mardan, Charsadda, Buner and Mansehra — it is cured in barns to a clean, uniform colour with a balanced sugar-to-nicotine profile. We offer strips and leaf by grade, crop year and packing, against your specification.

Cure
Flue-cured in barns
Typical use
Cigarette filler and blending leaf for manufacturers.
Full specification
Burley leaf

Air-cured · American blend

Burley

Our burley is air-cured to a tan-to-chestnut colour with an open structure that manufacturers use for casing and flavour application. Offered by crop year and grade, it is packed for long-haul shipment and quoted alongside FCV when a buyer is building an American-blend stem.

Cure
Air-cured
Typical use
American-blend filler and casing leaf.
Full specification
Dark air-cured leaf

Heavy body · dark blends

Dark air-cured

Dark air-cured tobacco from Pakistan is selected for body and oil rather than brightness. It is used by manufacturers of dark blends and traditional products who need a stable, heavy leaf with a controlled moisture band. We grade for colour, trash and stem, and pack to the same export carton standard as our brighter styles.

Cure
Air-cured, dark
Typical use
Dark-blend and traditional-product manufacturing.
Full specification
Sun-cured leaf

Aromatic · blend spice

Sun-cured

Sun-cured lots — including rustica and lighter aromatic styles grown in Pakistan — are offered for manufacturers who need a seasoning leaf rather than volume filler. Colour runs olive-gold to russet. Volumes are typically smaller than FCV; we quote by lot after you share the blend role and the chemistry you are targeting.

Cure
Sun-cured
Typical use
Aromatic / spice component in manufacturer blends.
Full specification