Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
LIKIN
Etymology
Noun
likin (countable and uncountable, plural likins)
(obsolete, historical) A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.
Source: Wiktionary
Li"kin`, n. [Written also lekin.] [ Chin. li kin; li the thousandth part of a tael + kin money.]
Definition: A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.
"Likin," which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, "squeezes" imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any other form of taxation. A. R. Colquhoun.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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