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Default What's in your coffee?

pure kona wrote:
>
> Hate to be so smart about this, but this is my real life-- having been
> a coffee farmer over 21 years. It is against the law, to send the
> outside of the coffee fruit- that fresh juicy red skin, out of Hawaii
> to anywhere.


Any idea why it's forbidden? Keeping any from being imported would
help protect against disease, but what purpose does it serve to keep
it from being exported?