How Many Pounds of Coffee
Do You Need to Trade
for a Russian Fighter Jet?
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Indonesia is the fourth largest
coffee producer in the world at
more than 800,000 tons a year.
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A fourth of their exports are high
quality Arabica coffee beans and
three fourths are lower quality but
higher in caffeine content Robusta.
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As you enjoy your cup of Java
remember that Java is an island in the
Indonesian archipelago and was such
a dominant producer in the early days
that the island’s name came to mean
coffee to many people.
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Indonesia is also a country with an
army, navy and air force and
recently they wanted to buy fighter
jets from Russia.
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However, the EU and USA
imposed banking sanctions on
Russia because of its annexation
of Crimea and meddling in Eastern
Ukraine.
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So, how could Indonesia get the
fighter jets it wanted?
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They resorted to barter and
thereby bypassed the international
banking system.
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Now the only question is how
many pounds of coffee do you
need to trade for a Russian fighter
jet?
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The business site Bloomberg
reports that Indonesia barters
coffee and palm oil for Russian fighter jets.
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Indonesia said Monday that it will barter coffee, palm oil and other commodities for 11 Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets, calling U.S. and European sanctions against Russia an opportunity to boost the Southeast Asian nation's trade.
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Indonesian Ministry of Trade spokesman Marolop Nainggolan said that a memorandum of understanding for the barter was signed Aug. 4 in Moscow between Russia's Rostecand PT. Perusahaan PerdaganganIndonesia, both state-owned companies.
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The Price of Coffee
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As of this writing, Arabica coffee
trades at about $3.30 a pound.
Robusta trades at about $2.31 a
pound.
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russian-fighter-jet/
How does that translate into
Russian fighter jets?
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If the Russians only want lots of
caffeine and less flavor they will barter
for Robusta. $40 million divided by
$2.31 a pound for Robusta comes to
17.3 million pounds of Robusta coffee
which is almost 9,000 tons.
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russian-fighter-jet/
If the Russians go for the better
tasting Arabica, this comes to $40
million divided by $3.30 or 12.1
million pounds of Arabica which is
6,000 tons.
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pounds-of-coffee-do-you-need-to-trade-for-a-
russian-fighter-jet/
Indonesia produces 200,000 tons
of Arabica a year and 600,000 tons
of Robusta.
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pounds-of-coffee-do-you-need-to-trade-for-a-
russian-fighter-jet/
If the country decided to trade all
of its Robusta coffee for fighter jets
they could trade for 600,000
tons/9,000 tons = 66 Russian
fighter jets.
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russian-fighter-jet/
If they traded all of their Arabica
coffee for jets that would work out
to 200,000 tons/6,000 tons = 33
Russian fighter jets.
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Of course there is palm oil in the
bargain but our calculations only
concern themselves with how
many pounds of coffee they need
to trade for Russian fighter jets of which they are buying 11.
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