Price Discrepancy Stunts Coffee Exports For over four years now, the headquarters of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), located in the Chelelk-Alsam Tower on Chad Street, has shone with the price ticker board displaying the country is own commodity prices. The prices displayed on the ticker board which is wrapped around the waist of the building appear in green, yellow and red, respectively indicating increases, stability or plunges. The prices for different varieties of coffee, however, which take up most of the space on the board, are, drawing a lot of frustration from exporters these days. They say it does not reflect international market conditions. Whereas the board was initially intended to help the traders in price discovery, that, say traders, is no longer the case. One such exporter is Adem Kedir, for whom coffee trading is not just a business, but a family heritage in which his father and brothers are also employed. After starting out helping in his father’s