Coffee Cartel Quotas: "someone always cheated"
In his comprehensive history of coffee, Mark Pendergrast discusses efforts of the coffee-producing nations to raise the price of coffee in 1977:
(p. 332) Quota restrictions without consumer country participation never worked in the past, since someone always cheated.
Source:
Pendergrast, Mark. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
