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Ghana, Ivory Coast
Abidjan and Accra cross swords over cocoa

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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 difficult marketing campaign for the 2023-2024 harvest is undermining cooperation between the two West African giants in the sector. [...]

Published on 05/12/2023 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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