Thursday, April 26, 2007

Vietnam Ships 174,000 Tons of Coffee in March, 45 Percent Above Estimate

(Bloomberg) -- Vietnam's government said it exported 45 percent more coffee in March than the world's second-biggest shipper of the beans originally estimated.

The Asian nation shipped 174,000 tons of coffee, compared with a previous estimate of 120,000 tons, the General Statistics Office in Hanoi said yesterday. The revision boosted Vietnam's total first-quarter coffee exports to 536,000 tons. Shipments for January to April may rise 84 percent to 656,000 tons from the same period in 2006, the Statistics Office said.


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