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EU ambassador Jobst Von Kirchmann plays lobbyist for international cocoa giants

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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 European Union's ambassador to Ivory Coast Jobst Von Kirchmann. © Sia Kambou/AFP

The EU ambassador in Ivory Coast has questioned in a official letter the legality of a new measure which forces cocoa multinationals to reserve 20% of their contracts for Ivorian partners - an intervention that has greatly irked the Ivorian authorities. [...] (388 words)

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Letter from Jobst Von Kirchmann to Patrick Achi (in French)

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