Green coffee is priced and settled internationally in US dollars, so a buyer’s own currency matters as much as the commodity price itself. Oman’s rial and the UAE dirham are pegged to the US dollar, which removes one layer of currency risk on conversion, but the underlying USD coffee price can still move sharply between quotation and payment. Buyers converting from currencies without a dollar peg, including the Iranian rial, face an additional and separate layer of exchange-rate risk on top of any change in the coffee price itself.
Atlas recommends buyers separate commodity price risk from currency risk in their own planning, rather than treating a landed-cost estimate as a single number that moves for one reason. For pegged-currency buyers, locking a price at the quotation date protects against commodity moves; for buyers converting from a floating or restricted currency, the exchange rate itself should be confirmed and, where possible, secured through the buyer’s own bank at or before contract signing, not assumed at the rate seen when the inquiry was first made.