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French banks lose out on cocoa business

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“West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders”

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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 Conseil Café Cacao (CCC) is no longer holding its revenues with the Ivorian branches of French banks, preferring instead to use African establishments as a matter of course. [...] (359 words)

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