It may have been more of a psychological breakthrough than a marketing triumph, but the flue-cured leaf industry in the US was treating the purchase by Chinese buyers of about 9m Ib (farm sales weight) of its product in April as a major victory. The development was particularly encouraging since the People's Republic of China had not made any purchases of flue-cured in the US for so long that no-one still in the business seems to be able to remember when it last did so. In the spring of last year, China ended a long drought of US leaf purchases by buying about I m Ib of Burley, and the same delegation that bought the flue-cured in April also bought an additional 1.6m Ib of Burley.
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机译：这可能不是心理上的突破，而不仅仅是营销上的胜利。但是，美国的烟熏烟叶行业正在将中国买家在四月份购买其产品约900万磅（农场销售重量）的交易视为一项重大胜利。这种发展尤其令人鼓舞，因为中国很长一段时间以来都没有在美国购买任何烤烟，以至于仍没有人记得上次交易的时间。去年春天，中国结束了长期以来美国烟叶采购的干旱局面，购买了大约1 m Ib白肋烟，而购买了4月烤烟的同一代表团还购买了另外160万lb Burley。
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