11.   Though contracts traded in New York specify delivery of arabica beans, a higher grade used to make fresh coffee, the two varieties in some cases are interchangeable.

12.   To be sure, supplies of arabica beans could still fall short of forecasts, even as rainfall reaches crops.

13.   U.S. consumers prefer the mild-flavored arabica beans to the harsher robusta beans that make up the bulk of the Brazilian crop.

14.   However, most of its production is lower-grade robusta varieties rather than the arabica beans Starbucks prefers.

15.   The composite measures the top quality mild arabica bean and the traditionally cheaper robusta variety.

16.   Coffee prices remained strong this week in the face of limited stocks of high quality arabica beans grown in Latin America.