Cocoa pods at a farm in the village of Binao in Ivory Coast.
DANA Mroueh, a small-business owner in Ivory Coast, was negotiating to introduce her organic chocolate bars into stores in New York and Washington when US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on all US imports recently.
Ivory Coast is the world’s biggest cocoa producer, and the United States is the world’s largest consumer of chocolate, though most of it comes from Canada and Mexico.
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