[SyzygistSix]

This doesn't really reflect the reality of the cacao market or the chocolate making industry, which is rapidly changing.

Countries like Ghana used to be held over a barrel regarding price. They produce low quality cacao usng extremely exploited labor to provide mass quantities to multinationals making low quality chocolate,like Nestle, Dove, Ghiardelli, etc.

Lately there is a lack of high quality, "fair trade" cacao for the growing high quality chocolate industry, which has taken to helping growers develop to be able to provide what they need. Not good news for the low quality producers, which, broadly speaking, are in Europe, which has been resting on its laurels and reputation while the state of the art has rapidly been improved by small, but growing companies. I don't know for certain but this may be part of the reason Ghana is refusing to sell to Switzerland. I do know that the company I worked for recently began buying cacao from Ghana. And that is certainly partly due to the quality increasing significantly.