While coffee and semi-processed cocoa recorded good export performance, there was a decline in beans, Robusta and rubber. Provisional Ivorian port statistics show a 4.5% drop in Ivorian cocoa exports between the beginning of October and the end of April. Exports totalled 1.21 Mt. at the end of April, revised upwards, exports showed 80,364 t. On the other hand, international sales of semi-processed cocoa products increased by nearly 12% over the same period from October to April, to 261,134 t.

Cotton benefited from a new satisfaction with shipments reaching 114,558 t between January and the end of April, up 8.3%. Remember that this includes cotton from Burkina Faso and Mali. Small performance of natural rubber with a 9% drop in exports over the same period from January to April, to 351,719 t. Coffee exports (Robusta), meanwhile, fell by 58% over the period January to the end of April, to 9,132 t. Yet, here again, the March figures have been revised from 1 698 t previously estimated to 4 692 t.