Coffee: ICO Monthly and Composite Indicator Prices on the New York Market

1979 ICA Agreement Basis

	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	June
				Cents per pound

Colombian Mild Arabicas

1989	N/A	N/A	149.17	151.05	146.65	132.16
1990	82.07	91.55	103.24	101.79	99.14	96.01
1991	91.55	94.23	99.36	97.27	91.51	90.18
1992	78.40	71.75	73.67	69.55	64.93	64.10
1993	71.61	72.45	67.07	59.77	67.35	68.13
1994	85.85	93.04	93.23	97.53	133.90	151.85
1995	177.23	175.07	185.75	180.30	177.18	170.89
1996	119.08	134.94	130.60	134.31	142.56	133.25
1997	146.18	188.62	212.96	199.22	318.50

Other Mild Arabicas

1989	149.50	137.57	139.38	143.06	138.65	123.21
1990	75.83	84.01	93.96	93.73	92.02	88.26
1991	86.32	89.57	93.72	91.73	87.50	85.50
1992	72.99	67.88	69.96	65.23	60.14	58.38
1993	68.66	67.46	62.77	56.88	61.48	61.61
1994	77.21	82.69	85.57	89.23	121.97	142.57
1995	171.74	168.71	178.22	172.81	168.83	151.56
1996	109.38	122.71	119.05	122.01	128.56	124.46
1997	131.83	167.20	193.82	204.43	264.50

Brazilian and Other Arabicas

1989	145.29	128.72	128.06	131.45	128.94	115.02
1990	70.36	77.59	86.17	87.45	86.31	82.94
1991	75.59	79.39	83.83	81.58	75.56	72.44
1992	62.03	58.05	59.60	54.94	51.11	49.08
1993	67.13	66.34	62.60	54.92	57.26	55.70
1994	71.42	80.14	84.72	87.14	118.37	136.43
1995	162.81	161.07	171.48	166.54	161.72	145.22
1996	127.54	144.05	140.99	132.92	134.76	125.44
1997	127.28	160.21	179.75	183.73	209.62

Robustas

1989	102.83	96.66	95.61	91.73	92.00	84.55
1990	50.52	51.30	57.68	57.39	55.03	52.38
1991	53.92	52.46	52.13	52.38	48.22	47.10
1992	49.44	43.22	43.08	42.32	38.79	38.07
1993	48.13	48.25	46.86	45.51	46.91	47.65
1994	60.91	62.25	66.46	72.64	96.05	113.31
1995	132.26	135.22	146.83	145.47	141.89	129.53
1996	91.99	98.99	91.99	91.45	92.10	86.46
1997	67.66	76.65	81.31	78.48	95.74

Average 1976 OMs & Robustas

1989	126.17	117.12	117.50	117.40	115.33	103.88
1990	63.18	67.66	75.82	75.56	73.53	70.32
1991	70.12	71.02	72.93	72.06	67.86	66.30
1992	61.22	55.55	56.52	53.78	49.47	48.23
1993	58.40	57.86	54.82	51.20	54.20	54.63
1994	69.06	72.47	76.02	80.94	109.01	127.94
1995	152.01	151.97	162.53	159.14	155.36	140.55
1996	100.69	110.85	105.52	106.73	110.33	105.46
1997	99.75	121.93	137.56	141.46	180.12

Composite 1979 ICA

1989	126.69	118.04	117.36	117.55	115.89	104.52
1990	62.75	67.01	75.25	75.34	73.30	69.91
1991	69.39	70.55	72.47	71.45	67.47	65.58
1992	61.12	55.51	56.48	53.64	49.27	48.13
1993	58.14	57.32	54.76	51.38	54.18	54.54
1994	69.17	72.37	76.11	81.19	108.42	127.91
1995	152.08	152.24	162.73	159.59	155.96	141.66
1996	100.33	110.50	105.89	107.09	110.24	105.79
1997	100.03	121.89	137.47	142.20	180.44


	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual

Colombian Mild Arabicas

1989	94.41	83.15	83.25	74.10	77.34	78.13	107.14
1990	92.45	103.30	102.21	97.20	92.38	97.06	96.53
1991	88.02	88.09	91.95	82.88	82.43	79.70	89.76
1992	62.50	56.49	56.18	64.77	71.72	81.52	67.97
1993	76.40	84.18	86.58	83.02	85.56	87.33	75.79
1994	222.75	210.57	231.52	206.07	186.96	173.94	157.27
1995	157.22	163.21	141.49	132.08	129.09	110.47	158.33
1996	135.39	137.68	123.30	127.77	129.41	126.41	131.23
1997							213.10

Other Mild Arabicas


1989	85.91	77.40	77.84	67.76	70.72	72.55	106.96
1990	86.48	94.42	94.92	91.41	84.84	89.89	89.15
1991	82.73	81.63	87.45	79.87	78.46	75.11	84.97
1992	57.68	52.42	52.73	61.40	67.36	77.46	63.64
1993	71.46	76.56	79.87	75.05	77.07	80.00	69.91
1994	217.67	198.07	220.10	199.06	180.76	167.47	148.53
1995	143.83	151.41	131.87	125.38	123.23	103.99	149.30
1996	120.47	122.49	114.05	120.62	119.90	115.01	119.89
1997							192.36

Brazilian and Other Arabicas

1989	78.75	67.32	67.75	60.32	65.53	67.93	98.76
1990	78.94	90.25	92.20	85.78	77.46	80.17	82.97
1991	69.24	68.15	75.08	65.91	66.03	62.14	72.91
1992	48.53	46.40	49.43	59.64	64.64	74.39	56.49
1993	65.76	73.25	75.58	71.65	74.20	74.51	66.58
1994	211.81	192.38	212.73	191.21	172.83	159.73	143.24
1995	139.68	149.54	130.26	127.23	125.33	110.46	145.95
1996	106.93	108.28	103.10	105.77	103.76	103.71	119.77
1997							172.12


Robustas

1989	65.78	59.35	60.66	53.83	53.23	52.15	75.70
1990	51.47	55.10	57.09	58.05	56.79	57.04	54.99
1991	46.49	46.57	48.11	47.31	51.47	51.45	49.80
1992	39.60	39.92	42.39	45.50	49.08	52.09	43.63
1993	50.39	59.29	63.44	60.05	62.53	62.90	53.49
1994	164.65	162.68	182.95	170.09	154.19	130.48	119.72
1995	120.89	131.28	116.41	114.15	112.79	94.72	126.79
1996	78.14	80.16	74.83	72.97	70.51	63.08	82.72
1997							79.97

Average 1976 OMs & Robustas

1989	75.85	68.38	69.26	60.80	61.98	62.35	91.34
1990	68.97	74.78	76.01	74.73	70.81	73.46	72.07
1991	64.61	64.19	67.78	63.59	64.96	63.28	67.39
1992	48.65	46.18	47.56	53.45	58.22	64.78	53.63
1993	60.93	67.93	71.66	67.55	69.80	71.48	61.71
1994	191.16	180.38	201.53	184.58	167.48	148.98	134.13
1995	132.36	141.35	124.14	119.77	118.01	99.36	138.05
1996	99.31	101.32	94.44	96.80	95.21	89.04	101.31
1997							136.16


Composite 1979 ICA

1989	76.67	69.05	69.23	61.10	62.07	61.90	91.67
1990	68.36	74.10	75.55	73.89	70.10	72.83	71.53
1991	64.31	63.38	66.86	62.83	64.30	63.07	66.81
1992	48.70	45.89	47.11	52.88	57.49	64.00	53.35
1993	60.61	67.69	71.64	67.78	70.03	71.53	61.63
1994	191.44	181.53	202.39	185.64	168.12	149.14	134.45
1995	132.71	141.70	124.76	120.02	117.99	99.57	138.42
1996	99.97	102.73	96.52	98.56	97.14	90.04	102.07
1997							136.41


Source: International Coffee Organization (ICO).

June 1997						Horticultural and Tropical Products Division, FAS/USDA

Last modified: Thursday, April 06, 2000