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Cameroon<br />
Dec-Feb Robusta Exports Down on Year<br />
Exports of robusta coffee from Cameroon during the first 3-months of the 2013-<strong>2014</strong> season fell compared with a year earlier,<br />
figures from the National Cocoa and Coffee Board data showed. Cameroon exported 790 tons of robusta coffee from December<br />
through February, down from 1,038 tons it shipped in the same period of the previous season.<br />
Cameroon’s robusta coffee season officially runs from December through November the subsequent year. Cameroon exported<br />
194 tons of the crop in February, down from 390 tons it exported in February 2013. Cameroon’s robusta exports have sunk in<br />
recent years as farmers have switched to growing crops such as yams, vegetables and cassava, to take advantage of rising food<br />
prices as coffee prices on world markets fall.<br />
The robusta harvest during the 2012-2013 season was 16,175 tons, down from 36,641 tons in the 2011-2012 season. The<br />
government plans to raise robusta output to 100,000 tons by 2020.<br />
[Dow Jones 29/04/14]<br />
Nestlé Cameroon To Produce Nescafé Using Locally Produced Coffee<br />
As of July Nestlé Cameroon, a subsidiary of the Swiss<br />
agro-foods giant, will produce Nescafé using Cameroongrown<br />
coffee. Nestlé Cameroon plans to take advantage<br />
of its addition to the Cameroonian government’s “indirect<br />
refinement initiative” provided for in the Cameroonian<br />
Customs code which mandates a reduction in the Customs<br />
royalties.<br />
According to current practices within the group, the Ivorian<br />
subsidiary which produces all Nescafé product sold in Africa<br />
[9,000 tonnes] and exported to Poland and Greece [3,000<br />
tonnes], sells the product to all other subsidiaries for the<br />
same price.<br />
However, while Cameroon pays Customs duties amounting<br />
to 30% of imported Nescafé, a country like Nigeria, which<br />
shares its highly permeable border with Cameroon, imports<br />
its Nescafé duty-free thanks to the free trade zone created<br />
by the UEMOA Treaty – a zone to which Nigeria and Cote<br />
d’Ivoire belong.<br />
[Business In Cameroon 30/05/14]<br />
Cote d’Ivoire<br />
Coffee Exports Up 6%<br />
Ivory Coast’s coffee bean exports reached 34,672 tonnes from October to April of the 2013/14 season, up more than 6% on<br />
the same period last year. The following is data for coffee bean exports in tonnes from the Ivory Coast ports of San Pedro and<br />
Abidjan.<br />
[Reuters 27/05/14]<br />
Apr <strong>2014</strong> Mar <strong>2014</strong> Apr 2013<br />
Abidjan 3,638 4,390 9,109<br />
San Pedro 1,255 1,263 297<br />
Total 4,893 5,653 9,406<br />
Cumulative from Oct 34,672 29,779 32,564<br />
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