Essen aller Art und alkoholische Getränke sowie andere Laster sind ja bei uns ausführlich behandelt worden, ich habe vorhin interessantes zu einem Thema gefunden, das bisher im Forum eher stiefmütterlich behandelt wurde, obwohl eine oder mehrere Tassen davon bei den meisten von uns auf dem täglichen Programm stehen:
Es geht hier um die exorbitant hohe Besteuerung von Kaffee in Thailand, den von einer "Kaffee-Mafia" kontrollierten Handel und die Bevorzugung von Instant - Kaffee gegenüber frischer Ware
Everybody's talking about the alcohol tax - that reminded me that Thailand has one of the planet's highest taxes - 40% - for imported coffee beans making coffee some whopping 130% more expensive than the world average. In addition they assess very high base values to imported major brand ground coffee or beans, while letting the low quality instant sh** that dominates the market through at much lower prices - yes that nonsense that is actually more expensive in Europe as it involves more processing. The WTO has repeatedly complained against the distorted ad-valorem practice yet successive governments have failed to even listen.
The background of this law is the coffee mafia which actually controls 99.5% of every cup of this caffeine beverage sold in the country. They also export almost all the Thai Arabica beans on contracts that tie local coffee farmers down for 30 years or has them sell only minor quantities at insane prices through local labels with inferior roasting technology and OTOP marketing but prices in the luxury segment.
This makes the same 250g sold in Europe for EUR 2.5 to 4 for about EUR 8-12. A few foreign factories like Moccona use local repackaging and mixing to circumvent this. So coffee is better and cheaper in Europe than in a coffee producing country. And this has nothing to do with fair price as virtually none of the Thai coffee producers offers a fair trade labeled product.
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