The Bean Won't Leave Naked Anymore — Inside the Four-Nation Cocoa Alliance
On 1 September the 2026/27 cocoa season opens — and for the first time the four nations that grow most of the world's cocoa are moving as one bloc to stop shipping the bean raw. What the Abuja Declaration and the EUDR clock mean for anyone in cocoa.
Your Francophone Exports Now Enter China Duty-Free. Read the Fine Print.
China dropped tariffs to zero on goods from all 53 African countries with diplomatic ties — the 8–30% duty on Ivorian cocoa is gone. But duty-free is claimed, not automatic, and Côte d'Ivoire is on a 2-year window. A terrain read for WAEMU exporters, from Abidjan.
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