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UN boosts African coffee and cotton trade

01 July 2001

Read more: export international commodity finance ECA

Efforts to bolster the coffee and cotton sectors in east Africa are underway with a three year export finance scheme launched by the United Nations Common Fund for Commodities. The initiative is a ?warehouse receipt system' and will see exporters using stocks of either commodity at selected warehouses as collateral for credit.

The principal targets of the scheme are small exporters that would otherwise encounter difficulties in obtaining financing...


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