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Coffee Trade in Ethiopia Coffee
has been a commodity here since before 1500. However, frequent external
invasions and internal conflicts have had a negative impact on the country's
coffee export history. Coffee export from Harar and Gerri goes back earlier
than 1810. In 1838, an export of 100 quintals of Enarea-coffee (now
Limu-Seka, Jimma) via Massawa was recorded. In
the 19th century, two coffee types "specialty coffees" were
exported as first and second grade of Harari Mocha coffee to London,
Marseilles, New York and Trieste. For
centuries, coffee and other goods were transported by caravans of mules,
camels and donkeys to the outside world. Today Ethiopia produces some 250,000
tons of coffee of which more than 100,000 tons or 5% of the world trade is
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