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        "msgid": "brazil-to-import-ri-cocoa-beans-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-04-03 00:00:00",
        "title": "Brazil to import RI cocoa beans",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Brazil to import RI cocoa beans RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuter): Brazil's Minister of Agriculture has given the go-ahead to three companies to import 4,000 tons of Indonesian cocoa beans, the president of one of the companies said. \"We received a fax today from the Ministry of Agriculture authorizing the imports...Between today and tomorrow we hope to finish negotiating prices,\" said Wady Jasmin of Joanes Industria, a subsidiary of the UK's E.D. and F. Man.",
        "content": "<p>Brazil to import RI cocoa beans<\/p>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuter): Brazil's Minister of Agriculture has<br>\ngiven the go-ahead to three companies to import 4,000 tons of<br>\nIndonesian cocoa beans, the president of one of the companies<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>\"We received a fax today from the Ministry of Agriculture<br>\nauthorizing the imports...Between today and tomorrow we hope to<br>\nfinish negotiating prices,\" said Wady Jasmin of Joanes Industria,<br>\na subsidiary of the UK's E.D. and F. Man.<\/p>\n<p>Joanes is to import 1,750 tons, Chadler a further 1,750 tons<br>\nand the Brazilian arm of Swiss food giant Nestle SA[NESZn.Z] the<br>\nremaining 500 tons.<\/p>\n<p>Jasmin said he understood the Brazilian arm of Cargill Inc had<br>\nalso received a fax to import a further 2,000 tons of Indonesian<br>\ncocoa from a different seller.<\/p>\n<p>The four companies had approached the Agriculture Ministry<br>\nafter reaching a consensus with producers over a supply shortfall<br>\nat the start of the Bahian midcrop, normally harvested between<br>\nMay and September but expected to start late this year.<\/p>\n<p>Producers have given their blessing to up to 15,000 tons of<br>\ncocoa imports until August.<\/p>\n<p>Jasmin said the 4,000 ton shipment should leave Indonesia in<br>\nthe next few days. The journey is expected to take around two<br>\nmonths.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia is currently the only country which has been pre-<br>\ncertified as free of risk by the Brazilian government following<br>\nnew regulations set down after a number of problems with the<br>\npurchase of 5,000 tons of Ivorian beans in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>The cocoa to be imported will come from a particular growing<br>\nregion in Indonesia which had been certified as free of risk<br>\nafter a group of Brazilian officials visited the region at the<br>\nend of 1995.<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian embassy was asked by the Agriculture Ministry<br>\nlast month to check that conditions in the area had not changed.<\/p>\n<p>Over the coming months the companies may also request the<br>\nAgriculture Ministry to conduct a risk assessment survey of<br>\nimports from the Ivory Coast but this is not an urgent issue,<br>\nJasmin said.<\/p>",
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