ABIDJAN, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator estimated on Thursday it still had 300,000 tonnes of cocoa left to come out of farms in the 2010/11 season, that can go nowhere while EU and United States sanctions are preventing shipping.
"This is what is worrying us," Gilbert Anoh, president of the Coffee and Cocoa Management ommittee, which is under EU and U.S. sanctions for supporting incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo in his bid to stay in power despite losing a poll to his rival.
"The maritime embargo is preventing exporters from operating." The figure includes the mid-crop from April-September, he said.
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