O café no Brasil: produção e mercado mundial na primeira metade do século XX

The objective of this article is to present an interpretation about the hegemonic powers in action in the world coffee trade in the first half of the 20th century, considering the defense policies adopted by the largest producer (Brazil), the construction of competing producers and the delicate scenario characterized by Wars and the World Economic Crisis. It is worth mentioning the information presented by the main coffee producers in the American continent and in the world, the main ports of shipment in Brazil, as well as the main destinations of exported sacks. We used as source the Statistical Yearbook for the year 1948, published by the Secretary of Finance of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil among other support works on the conditions of commercialization of the product on a world scale and recent works, which dealt with the subject, developed in Postgraduate programs