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Building Block 5 · Ethical & Intelligent Premium Trading

Ethical by structure. Intelligent by science.

UBTS Trading Company carries forward the mandate of the former UBTS Smart Trading Program — matchmaking and transaction closure on passport-verified goods — now focused on the Premium segment. It is UAA-DP’s fourth movement, commercially housed in a dedicated company.

0: Title taken to goods · buyer funds held
≥ baseline: What the producer earns at delivery
5: Steps from measurement to shared premium

01Ethical by structure

Measure. Match. Agree. Deliver. Share.

01
Measure
The protocol measures the lot at every stage.
02
Match
A premium buyer is matched to the measured attributes.
03
Agree
Baseline plus premium; the buyer sees the price breakdown.
04
Deliver
Farmer or cooperative, through a licensed exporter where required, to the buyer.
05
Share
The premium is shared with the farmer on terms set per transaction.

02The structural invariant

Three guarantees that never change.

No title, no funds

UBTS never takes title to goods and never holds the buyer’s funds.

Goods move from the farmer or cooperative, through a licensed exporter wherever the law requires one, to the buyer.

Never below the baseline

The producer never earns less than the baseline at delivery.

The market price on the day where markets are liberalised, the official farmgate price where they are administered.

Priced on science

Buyers pay above baseline for measured attributes.

Cup score, mycotoxins, bean count, fibre quality, moisture, footprint and environmental profile.

03How the premium works

Baseline plus a premium for passport-verified quality.

Its flagship is premium trade: buyers who pay above baseline for protocol-measured attributes — cup score, mycotoxin levels, bean count, fibre quality, moisture, footprint and environmental profile. Broader matchmaking, marketplace access and buyer intelligence sit underneath.

The buyer pays baseline plus a premium for passport-verified quality. The premium is shared between the farmer and UBTS on terms set transaction by transaction. Protocol data is included in the premium and available to other buyers afterwards.

04Intelligent by science

Matching runs on what the protocol measures.

Buyers search for lots by the attributes they price, and every attribute carries its source and time of measurement. The closest public comparable, the green-coffee marketplace Algrano, shows the model premium buyers already accept: the producer sets the price, and the buyer sees it together with a transparent service fee.

05Regulatory design

Every country and every crop has its route to premium trade.

Every trading stream is opened country by country and crop by crop, within the regulatory perimeter that applies there.

Market	Regime	Route to premium trade
Côte d’Ivoire — free-market crops (e.g. cassava, maize, rice, yam, plantain, fruit)	No administered price	First trades at launch, within the brokerage perimeter confirmed for UBTS Côte d’Ivoire SAS
Côte d’Ivoire — cocoa, coffee, cashew, cotton	Administered prices; cocoa and coffee exports require annual Coffee-Cocoa Council approval	Premium route through approved exporters, agreed with each regulator
Cameroon — cocoa and coffee	Liberalised market	Baseline is the day’s market price; opens with the CA-DP launch
Pipeline countries	Country by country	Each opens after its own regulatory and market mapping

06Revenue streams

Segment 2 of the Group: UBTS Trading Company.

Revenue stream	Payer	Trigger
Premium orchestration	Buyers, through the premium	Premium trade settled
Marketplace access, matchmaking, facilitation and buyer intelligence	Buyers and sellers	Per service

What counts: premium trades settled; premium paid to producers above the baseline at delivery.

↗Build it with us

Let’s put science behind every premium lot — together.

The right conversation now is about the protocol, the launch sequence, and the evidence that will prove premium demand crop by crop. We welcome governments and regulators, premium buyers, academic partners, investors and communities.

01Governments & regulators
02Premium buyers
03Academic partners
04Investors