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Article: Austria: the economic importance of tea & coffee.
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 1989
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Austria: the economic importance of tea & coffee
Austria's yearly imports of green beans, roasted coffee and coffee extracts total to one million bags (green bean equivalent) which is more than one percent of the whole world crop. Since the end of World War II these imports have been constantly rising.
In 1988 the total imports of coffee ran up to 79,130 tons in the sum of US$ 215 million. The coffee re-exports figured out at 13,560 tons to the value of US$ 45 million.
The larger coffee suppliers in 1988 were Brazil with a share of 42.6 percent of the green coffee imports, followed by Colombia with 7.1 percent, El Salvador with 5.4 percent, ...