COLOMBIA COFFEE REGISTRATIONS REMAIN OPEN Colombia's coffee export registrations remain open and there are no plans to close them since a new marketing policy means an unlimited amount can be registered, Gilberto Arango, president of the private exporters' association said. "The philosophy of the new policy is not to close registrations. Nobody so far said may would be closed," he told Reuters. On March 13, Colombia opened registrations for April and May for an unlimited amount. Without giving breakdowns, Arango said private exporters had registered 1,322,804 bags this calendar year up to April 6, or roughly 440,000 bags per month, slightly lower than the average in recent years. He estimated the amount of bags registered by the national coffee growers' federation at about the same, meaning a total of about 900,000 bags registered and sold per month by Colombia. "The only change that could happen is, because of the volume, we would be told that from such a date, registrations would be for June shipment, etc" Arango said.