FAO/GIEWS - Food Outlook No.1, February 1999

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Table A.13 - SELECTED INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY PRICES


Currency
and Unit
Effective
Date
Latest
Quotation
1 month
ago
1 year
ago
Average
1988-90
Sugar (I.S.A. daily price) US cents per lb 26.01.99 6.9 7.8 11.3 11.4
Coffee (I.C.O. daily price) US cents per lb 26.01.99 95.1 101.7 132.7 76.7
Cocoa (I.C.C.O. daily price) US cents per lb 26.01.99 64.9 66.9 76.3 56.0
Tea (all tea, London, weekly) US$ per kg. 25.01.99 1.7 n.q. 2.7 1.5
Bananas (Central America, DM per tonne 28.01.99 2 004 1/ 1 452 1/ 1 882 1/ 1 107
f.o.r., Hamburg)  
1464 2/ 1 229 2/ 1 392 2/  
Rubber (RSS 1, spot London) Pence per kg. 27.01.99 51.2 46.0 49.0 54.5
Cotton (COTLOOK, index "A" 1-3/32") US cents per lb 22.01.99 55.6 n.q. 69.7 78.5
Wool (64's, London) Pence per kg 22.01.99 315 n.q. 379 466

SOURCE: FAO
1/ EC duty paid, estimated.
2/ Estimated price for EFTA markets.


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