Price support

Valorisation ( Late Latin valor: value ) refers to government measures in foreign trade in order to raise the price of raw materials and world trade goods or to keep at a certain level. Such a measure was in the 1960s held in South America, in order to influence the price of cocoa. Another was the Kaffeevalorisierung of 1906. The Valorisation serve in particular the purchase and the storage for the purpose of market regulation, restrictions on production and the destruction of surplus stocks.