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The coffee companies of Houston formed the Greater Houston Coffee Association in fall 2000 the industry then tried to make Houston a major coffee shipping port Coffee sold through futures contracts may only be shipped to a New York Board of Trade-certified port and Texas's ad valorem tax on warehouse inventories made it impossible for Houston to get such a certification the tax was written into the Constitution of Texas so the Greater Houston Coffee Association asked State Representative Joe E Moreno and State Senator Mario Gallegos to present a constitutional amendment bill to exempt cocoa and coffee stored in Harris County warehouses from the tax Voters approved the amendment in 2001 Since then Houston's role as a coffee port increased After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans much of the traffic switched to Houston. . . 2 Early Spanish exploration In May 1945 Australian troops landed in Borneo over-running the oilfields there British American and Chinese forces defeated the Japanese in northern Burma in March and the British pushed on to reach Rangoon by 3 May. Chinese forces started a counterattack in the Battle of West Hunan that occurred between 6 April and 7 June 1945 American naval and amphibious forces also moved towards Japan taking Iwo Jima by March and Okinawa by the end of June. At the same time American submarines cut off Japanese imports drastically reducing Japan's ability to supply its overseas forces. . . .

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