Hawaii coffee growers favour free trade deal
Farmers support Obama’s Asia-Pacific trade plan because they say Asian buyers will pay more than US ones.
Published On 15 Nov 2011
Earlier this week, Barack Obama, the US president, announced plans to create a free trade agreement with some Asia-Pacific countries during an Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Hawaii.
The decision comes as coffee growers in the US state struggle to keep their generations-old businesses going.
The growers say they are in favour of the proposed deal because Asian markets are “willing to pay more for a good product than the average American citizen”.
Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane reports from Honolulu, Hawaii.
Source: Al Jazeera