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Starbucks in Ethiopian coffee dispute. U.S. coffee chain Starbucks is denying Ethiopia earnings of $88 million a year, according to Oxfam.

by BBC News

US coffee chain Starbucks is denying Ethiopia earnings of £47m ($88m) a year, according to Oxfam.

The UK charity says Starbucks asked the National Coffee Association (NCA) to block the country’s bid to trademark three types of coffee bean in the US.

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