Ethiopia sues for Coffee Coffee grows Coffee Bean Price

Ethiopia strongly mediates Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, to share the research results of natural low-caffeine coffee trees, and then for the rights and interests of coffee farmers to fight against Starbucks, the world's largest coffee chain brand, accusing the green mermaid of embezzling the three coffee names of Yejasuefei, Sidamo and Harald, requiring Starbucks to cancel the trademark registration of these three place names because they belong to Egypt. It can only be used with the consent and authorization of the country concerned.

The dispute between the two sides broke out in March 2005 of ⊙○, and became the focus of international media hype.

What is of interest to the media is that Ethiopia is the birthplace of Arabica, with coffee exports of 170000 tons in the past six years and foreign exchange earnings of 431 million US dollars, accounting for 35 per cent of the country's exports in the past six years. Of the country's 70 million people, 15 million depend on coffee for a living. In the six years of ○⊙, the gross national product of Egypt was only US $9.78 billion, with a national income of less than US $900. it is one of the poorest countries in the world.

In contrast, rival Starbucks, a coffee chain giant, has 12440 stores around the world in six years, and its powerful team of lawyers is best at suing its peers for counterfeiting green mermaid trademarks, with a total turnover of US $7.78 billion, or almost 80 per cent of Ethiopia's gross national product. In the past six years, Starbucks imported 150000 tons of coffee beans from various producing countries in the world, accounting for about 50% of Ethiopia's coffee production of 300000 tons in the same year, but Ethiopian coffee accounted for only 2% of Starbucks coffee imports in two ○⊙ six years. (Starbucks mainly focuses on Central and South American beans, which is in line with the historical track of American coffee preference. In the past, I only heard of Starbucks plaintiffs, but now poor Ethiopia treats it in its own way, not hesitating to fight a hard battle with Starbucks in a rich country, which is of course wonderful.