Coffee buyers not happy with Ethiopian Commodity Exchange By Desalegn Sisay AFRIK.COM June 06, 2009 Foreign buyers of Ethiopian special coffee beans have expressed their concern over the introduction of a new auctioning system related to the trading of coffee beans at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX). The system was introduced in December 2008. Prior to the introduction of the new trading system by the Ethiopian government, exporters had the right to buy their preferred beans from any supplier of their choice. However, they now have to compete with other exporters to get their beans. A recent delinkage of exporters with their buyers in Europe and United States has been blamed on this factor. Exporters are now expressing their discontentment over the new trading system. In the month of may this year the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) in a letter to Prime Minster Meles Zenawi, expressed the difficulty in obtaining its usual special brands of coffee due to the new tr...