(17 Apr 2025)
IVORY COAST CHOCOLATE TARIFFS
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N’gattakro, Ivory Coast – 12 April 2025
1. Wide of village
2. Various of Berthin Assi Konan getting ready for work
3. Various of Konan tending to cocoa beans
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Berthin Assi Konan, cocoa farmer:
“When we make money, we have the courage to be able to work well and have enough (cocoa) to export. But if we’re not happy, how can we give ourselves to this work? We can’t, because we’re suffering. I hire people to come and help me day and night, to clean, to grind, I pay for all of that. And for all that, the price (is not good)."
5. Various of Salif Traoré farming with others
6. Close of cocoa pods
7. Farmers seen through trees
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Salif Traoré, cocoa farmer:
"The price isn’t good. If we hear the American president came to put a tax on the price of cocoa, it’s really not good for us, it doesn’t help us.”
9. Various of cocoa trees
10. Farmer Jean Mari Konan Yao harvesting cocoa
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Mari Konan Yao, cocoa farmer:
"My harvest last year, what I had between November and December: in November I had three bags, in December three and a half bags. But this year isn’t the case, I got two and a half bags.”
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Bouaflé, Ivory Coast – 12 April 2025
12. Boss Diarra sitting with other members of a cocoa union in their office
13. Diarra walking onto street
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Boss Diarra, cocoa farmers union coordinator:
"The problem we’re facing today is, you see, this stockroom is full. Donald Trump’s customs tax is causing us problems. Because of this, people can’t buy our products. We are already feeling the effects, so if there’s a solution to this problem, we’d be happy.”
15. Bags of cocoa in a stockroom
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Abidjan, Ivory Coast – 10 April 2025
16. Ministers gather for a meeting
17. Various of Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara speaking with ministers
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Amadou Coulibaly, government spokesperson:
“We are affected because we have about 4% of our trade with the United States, this mainly concerns cocoa, rubber, and a little cashew. So it is true that we have noticed this increase. In terms of reaction, we must first try to see what new outlets we can find for our products to be able to compensate for this loss.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
N’gattakro, Ivory Coast – 12 April 2025
19. Various of cocoa trees
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Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast – 13 April 2025
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Bruno Marcel Iritié, researcher at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Polytechnic Institute:
“If the United States imposed a 21% tax, exporters will inevitably not be able to export to the United States. And as a result, there will be a problem with increased supply in Ivory Coast. As a result of this, after the supply has increased, our European customers will be forced to buy – well, that’s the effect of supply and demand – they will inevitably buy cheaper because when there is too much (supply), the customer is king.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
N’gattakro, Ivory Coast – 12 April 2025
21. Various of cocoa trees
22. Traoré harvesting cocoa
STORYLINE:
LEADIN
In Ivory Coast, cocoa farmers are feeling the strain as prices rise and trade tensions add to an already difficult harvest.
The country is the world’s top cocoa producer, and many here are now facing uncertainty after U.S. tariffs shook the market.
STORYLINE
Berthin Assi Konan gets up early to tend to cocoa beans in his village of N’gattakro, in central Ivory Coast.
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