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reduction in Customs duties and consumption taxes in Europe, which severely affect
certain Brazilian products, especially coffee. If close co-operation were established
between Brazil and the industrial and over-populated countries of Europe with a view
to facilitating the grant of long-term credits to farmers and to developing the consumption
of the principal Brazilian articles of export, especially coffee, this would be of
great advantage to those countries themselves.