There was a need for tight coffee regulations as far back as 1991, the start of the overseas coffee boom. People were eschewing their bland old local coffee pots and were importing from such luxurious places as China. This was a problem for Governments of the old C8, which composed of the most powerful coffee pot making countries of the world — Britain, America, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Russia and, oddly, Papua New Guinea. These Governments were losing money from cheap Far Eastern knock-offs of their products, which their subjects were buying with much more abundance than the expensive home-produced versions.