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The International Coffee Agreement (ICA) is an international agreement on raw materials between coffee-producing and consuming countries. It was first signed in 1962 and aims to maintain the quotas of exporting countries and to keep coffee prices high and stable on the market[1] and to use mainly export quotas to control prices. [2] The International Coffee Organisation, the supervisory body of the agreement, represents all the main coffee-producing and consumer countries. Growing for Prosperity: Profitability as a Catalyst for a Sustainable Coffee Sector According to Yves Englers Canada in Africa, “in 1989, the United States was no longer worried about the prospect of poor coffee farmers turning to the Soviet Union, but withdrew its support from the international coffee agreement.” .