Al Schwartz, Olympic swimmer turned Loop lawyer, in Mexico arranging to import coffee.
It was also the only port importing coffee from Yemen.
A massive rise in coffee prices in 1976/77 led to a quadrupling of the annual costs of importing coffee compared to 1972-75.
This started the tradition of importing handicrafts and coffee from Indonesia, Nepal and Peru.
A massive rise in coffee prices in 1976-77 led to a quadrupling of the amount of hard currency needed to import coffee.
The situation was the following: many merchants were importing coffee from other countries, of poor quality and freshness, and passing them off as locally produced.
It became widely used during the Fascist period and the war, as Italy was affected by embargo and struggled to import coffee.
Mexico, a large producer, said on Thursday that it might have to import coffee to make up for short domestic supplies.
The Dutch East India Company was the first to import coffee on a large scale.
To soften up the huge Russian market, it is importing instant coffee from its factories in India.