Very true, but CT Shade/broadleaf are primarily binders and wrappers. Filler tobacco is grown in both places, of course. The resulting mild taste is currently out of fashion with aficionado's, but these things often go in cycles.
Mexico's cigar-tobacco-growing areas are volcanic IIRC, I don't know about Cameroon. Cameroon sun-grown wrapper has a unique taste, though - and a unique taste is what an American puro would need to succeed, I think.
FYI, http://www.marshwheeling.com/ (seems to have PA broadleaf/Dom filler)
http://www.fdgrave.com/ (Muniemaker)
Neither is hand-rolled, though, AFAIK.
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