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Article: COFFEE PRODUCERS SEEK MORATORIUM ON IMPORTS OF GREEN COFFEE BEANS.
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- SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
- Article date:
- September 15, 1999
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The Confederacion Mexicana de Productores del Cafe (CMPC) has asked the government to revise its policies allowing duty- free imports of green coffee beans. The imports are intended to compensate for a shortage of domestic beans and primarily benefit processors like Nestle Mexico. CMPC president Alfredo Moises Ceja said his organization has urged President Ernesto Zedillo to impose a moratorium on these imports, which would allow producers and processors to renegotiate import levels for the rest of the year. Under a three-year program implemented in 1997, Mexico has imported about 45,000 60-kg bags of green coffee beans so far this year. Imports of green coffee beans ...