Tobacco is a monopoly, but alcohol is not a monopoly.

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

Article 1 is to implement tobacco monopoly management, organize the production and operation of tobacco monopoly products in a planned manner, and improve tobacco This law is formulated to improve the quality of products, protect the interests of consumers, and ensure national fiscal revenue.

Article 2 The term “tobacco specialty products” as mentioned in this Law refers to cigarettes, cigars, shredded tobacco, recured tobacco leaves, tobacco leaves, cigarette paper, filter rods, cigarette tows, and special tobacco machinery.

Cigarettes, cigars, cut tobacco, and recured tobacco leaves are collectively referred to as tobacco products.

Article 3 The state shall implement monopoly management of the production, sales, import and export of tobacco monopoly products in accordance with the law, and implement a tobacco monopoly license system.

If it is an individual trading company, it can export liquor.

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

Article 30 No Tobacco Monopoly Production Enterprise License to Produce Tobacco Products that are sold will be ordered to close down by the tobacco monopoly administrative department, their illegal gains will be confiscated, and they will be fined.

If a company does not have a tobacco monopoly production enterprise license to produce cigarette paper, filter rods, cigarette tows or special tobacco machinery, the tobacco monopoly administrative department shall order it to stop producing the above-mentioned products, confiscate the illegal gains, and may combine impose a fine.

Article 31: Anyone who does not have a tobacco monopoly wholesale enterprise license to operate tobacco products wholesale business shall be ordered by the tobacco monopoly administrative department to close or cease operations of tobacco products wholesale business, illegal gains shall be confiscated, and a fine shall be imposed.

Article 32 Anyone who operates the retail business of tobacco products without a tobacco monopoly retail license shall be ordered by the industrial and commercial administration department to stop operating the retail business of tobacco products, confiscate the illegal gains, and impose a fine.

Article 33 Whoever produces or sells cigarettes, cigars, or packaged tobacco without a registered trademark shall be ordered by the industrial and commercial administration department to stop production and sales, and shall be fined.

Whoever produces or sells tobacco products that counterfeit other people’s registered trademarks shall be ordered by the industrial and commercial administration department to stop the infringement, compensate the infringer for losses, and may also be fined; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Tobacco Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China