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Lolest!
#1 Posted : Saturday, October 31, 2015 4:00:05 PM
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African leaders would like to escape the colonial trap of being viewed simply as raw material exporters. But their efforts to add value to the materials continue to be frustrated by existing EU policies.
Take the example of coffee. In 2014 Africa —the home of coffee— earned nearly $2.4 billion from the crop. Germany, a leading processor, earned about $3.8 billion from coffee re-exports.
The concern is not that Germany benefits from processing coffee. It is that Africa is punished by EU tariff barriers for doing so. Non-decaffeinated green coffee is exempt from the charges. However, a 7.5 per cent charge is imposed on roasted coffee. As a result, the bulk of Africa’s export to the EU is unroasted green coffee.

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murchr
#2 Posted : Saturday, October 31, 2015 4:33:29 PM
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Lolest! wrote:
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African leaders would like to escape the colonial trap of being viewed simply as raw material exporters. But their efforts to add value to the materials continue to be frustrated by existing EU policies.
Take the example of coffee. In 2014 Africa —the home of coffee— earned nearly $2.4 billion from the crop. Germany, a leading processor, earned about $3.8 billion from coffee re-exports.
The concern is not that Germany benefits from processing coffee. It is that Africa is punished by EU tariff barriers for doing so. Non-decaffeinated green coffee is exempt from the charges. However, a 7.5 per cent charge is imposed on roasted coffee. As a result, the bulk of Africa’s export to the EU is unroasted green coffee.


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Africans need to stop playing the victims card and process their coffee for consumption. If Nestle can only process their coffee in Europe and then sell it to you Africans at a premium that includes shipping charges and then you go buy it from the shelves...who's to blame? Boycott their products and buy Dormans and Java coffee. You have to start thinking like them....BUY A BRAND THAT KEEPS YOUR FELLOW AFRICANS IN JOBS AND THAT PAYS TAXES TO YOUR COUNTRY.
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Swenani
#3 Posted : Saturday, October 31, 2015 4:43:01 PM
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murchr wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
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African leaders would like to escape the colonial trap of being viewed simply as raw material exporters. But their efforts to add value to the materials continue to be frustrated by existing EU policies.
Take the example of coffee. In 2014 Africa —the home of coffee— earned nearly $2.4 billion from the crop. Germany, a leading processor, earned about $3.8 billion from coffee re-exports.
The concern is not that Germany benefits from processing coffee. It is that Africa is punished by EU tariff barriers for doing so. Non-decaffeinated green coffee is exempt from the charges. However, a 7.5 per cent charge is imposed on roasted coffee. As a result, the bulk of Africa’s export to the EU is unroasted green coffee.


http://www.farmingkenya.org/node/763


Africans need to stop playing the victims card and process their coffee for consumption. If Nestle can only process their coffee in Europe and then sell it to you Africans at a premium that includes shipping charges and then you go buy it from the shelves...who's to blame? Boycott their products and buy Dormans and Java coffee. You have to start thinking like them....BUY A BRAND THAT KEEPS YOUR FELLOW AFRICANS IN JOBS AND THAT PAYS TAXES TO YOUR COUNTRY.


Yes,or refuse to sell the non decaffeinated green coffee
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tycho
#4 Posted : Saturday, October 31, 2015 9:19:05 PM
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Swenani wrote:
murchr wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
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African leaders would like to escape the colonial trap of being viewed simply as raw material exporters. But their efforts to add value to the materials continue to be frustrated by existing EU policies.
Take the example of coffee. In 2014 Africa —the home of coffee— earned nearly $2.4 billion from the crop. Germany, a leading processor, earned about $3.8 billion from coffee re-exports.
The concern is not that Germany benefits from processing coffee. It is that Africa is punished by EU tariff barriers for doing so. Non-decaffeinated green coffee is exempt from the charges. However, a 7.5 per cent charge is imposed on roasted coffee. As a result, the bulk of Africa’s export to the EU is unroasted green coffee.


http://www.farmingkenya.org/node/763


Africans need to stop playing the victims card and process their coffee for consumption. If Nestle can only process their coffee in Europe and then sell it to you Africans at a premium that includes shipping charges and then you go buy it from the shelves...who's to blame? Boycott their products and buy Dormans and Java coffee. You have to start thinking like them....BUY A BRAND THAT KEEPS YOUR FELLOW AFRICANS IN JOBS AND THAT PAYS TAXES TO YOUR COUNTRY.


Yes,or refuse to sell the non decaffeinated green coffee


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Swenani
#5 Posted : Sunday, November 01, 2015 9:33:02 AM
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tycho wrote:
Swenani wrote:
murchr wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
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African leaders would like to escape the colonial trap of being viewed simply as raw material exporters. But their efforts to add value to the materials continue to be frustrated by existing EU policies.
Take the example of coffee. In 2014 Africa —the home of coffee— earned nearly $2.4 billion from the crop. Germany, a leading processor, earned about $3.8 billion from coffee re-exports.
The concern is not that Germany benefits from processing coffee. It is that Africa is punished by EU tariff barriers for doing so. Non-decaffeinated green coffee is exempt from the charges. However, a 7.5 per cent charge is imposed on roasted coffee. As a result, the bulk of Africa’s export to the EU is unroasted green coffee.


http://www.farmingkenya.org/node/763


Africans need to stop playing the victims card and process their coffee for consumption. If Nestle can only process their coffee in Europe and then sell it to you Africans at a premium that includes shipping charges and then you go buy it from the shelves...who's to blame? Boycott their products and buy Dormans and Java coffee. You have to start thinking like them....BUY A BRAND THAT KEEPS YOUR FELLOW AFRICANS IN JOBS AND THAT PAYS TAXES TO YOUR COUNTRY.


Yes,or refuse to sell the non decaffeinated green coffee


Buy Kenyan to build Kenya is an impossibility.


Yes, but we can sell Kenyan to build Kenya
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innairobi
#6 Posted : Sunday, November 01, 2015 12:00:53 PM
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africa will only escape poverty through intra-african trade. africans will remain at the bottom of the coffee, cocoa, tea etc value chain as long as there is a far larger market for that stuff in europe and america compared to africa.
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