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“West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders”

Ghana, Ivory Coast

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

By jointly introducing a premium of $400 per tonne on cocoa beans in autumn 2020, Ivory Coast and Ghana were seeking to ensure that cocoa producers' revenues were maintained. In so doing, however, they sparked off an open war with the big commodity traders, who have since taken steps to get round the measure and avoid paying the premium. This battle of wills has paralysed a sector which has already been badly affected by Covid-19 and speeded up the transformation of the trading sector, encouraging Ghana and Ivory Coast to trade their cocoa beans on their own account. [...]

The head of the powerful coffee and cacao board Yves Brahima Koné has blocked over 1,200 cargos handled by Cargill, Olam and Barry Callebaut as a squabble over this season's cocoa price drags on. [...]

Published on 03/12/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Barry Callebault
Brahima Koné
Cargill
Conseil Cafe Cacao
Lionel Soulard
Olam
Yves

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The big agricultural trading houses, which are still resisting the minimum pricing system introduced by Ivory Coast and Ghana last year, now risk seeing their share of the chocolate market reduced in favour of their Ivorian competitors.

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Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on World Cocoa Day, 1 October 2020.

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Ouattara wants to bypass traders on the Chinese front

As it struggles to make cocoa traders pay the premium introduced last year in conjunction with Ghana, Ivory Coast is preparing to take its own steps in trading by opening a marketing office in China.

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Alassane Ouattara, on National Cocoa and Chocolate Day, in November 2020.

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Cacao producers' revolt spills over into coffee industry

Africa's coffee producers would like to impose the same demands on multinationals as Ghana and Ivory Coast have done on cacao but are struggling to coordinate their efforts. Their battle has everyone involved, from the Fine Coffees Association to the International Coffee Organization.

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Barry Callebault
Brahima Koné
Cargill
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