ICO: Coffee import and export in May decreased slightly

Export

Global coffee exports in May decreased by 14.6% to 10.49 million bags as exports from all countries decreased. However, this is the third highest export volume in May and followed a record high last year.

Export of arabica coffee decreased by 19.7% to 6.43 million bags, of which Colombian shipments decreased by 13.4% to 999,000 bags.

Brazil’s exports fell 25.7% to 2.82 million bags. Green arabica shipments dropped 27.3% to 2.2 million bags, reflecting the biennial production cycle of the 2019-2020 crop. However, Ethiopian exports increased by 7.8% to 381,000. sack.

Compared to May 2019, exports from the remaining countries decreased by 14.4% to 2.61 million as the volume of the five largest exporters decreased, notably that of Honduras’ exports decreased by 20.9%. 730,000 bags left.

Arabica exports in the first 8 months of 2019 – 2020 reached 83.8 million bags, down 4.7% compared to 87.96 million bags in the same period last year.

In particular, exports from Colombia decreased 7.9% to 9.33 million bags, from Brazil fell 9.6% to 26.23 million bags and from other countries decreased 7.4% to 16.58 million bags. In contrast, robusta shipments increased by 2.5% to 31.67 million bags.

Import

Imports by ICO and US members, on average, accounted for about 75% of global imports, up 5.1% to 11.76 million bags in March and down 3.7% to 64.22 million bags in 6 the first month of the year.

In the first 6 months, EU and US imports dropped by 2.9% and 8.2%, respectively to 41.6 million bags and 13.75 million bags. Japanese imports dropped 8.3% to 3.6 million bags, Tunisia’s fell 6.2% to 265,000 bags and Norway fell 0.5% to 363,000 bags.

In contrast, imports from the Russian Federation increased by 8% to 2.99 million bags while that of Switzerland increased by 7.8% to 1.65 million bags.

EU

Brazil is the EU’s largest coffee exporter, accounting for 20% of total imports in the first 6 months. Followed by Vietnam (13.8%), Colombia (3.9%), Honduras (3.8%) and Uganda (3.2%).

Specifically, imports from Brazil and Vietnam decreased by 6.7% and 10.4%, respectively, to 8.32 million bags and 5.74 million bags. However, imports from Colombia increased by 0.3% to 1.63 million bags, from Honduras increased by 20.7% to 1.57 million bags and from Uganda increased by 7.6% to 1.35 million bags.

About 70% of EU imports are green coffee while instant coffee accounts for about 10%. In the first half, Brazil, India and Vietnam were significant sources of instant coffee for the bloc, accounting for 5.4%, 4.7% and 3.5% of the total soluble imports, respectively. EU.

America

Imports from Brazil and Colombia accounted for 53.6% of US imports in the first 6 months, in addition to Vietnam (9.1%), Mexico (4.9%) and Peru (4.1%). .

Imports from Brazil decreased by 2.7% to 4.21 million bags, from Colombia decreased by 10.3% to 3.15 million bags and from Vietnam decreased by 18.5% to 1.25 million bags.

Shipments from Mexico and Peru decreased by 21.5% and 27.3%, respectively, to 672,000 bags and 558,000 bags.

The five largest sources of US instant coffee imports were Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, India and Spain, accounting for 87.8% of the total. Meanwhile, the top 5 import sources of roasted coffee are Canada, Italy and Switzerland, accounting for 71.8% while Mexico and Colombia accounted for 10.8% and 7.3% respectively.

Japan

Similar to the EU and the US, Japan still imported coffee mainly from Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia in the first half of this year, respectively accounting for 30.7%, 25.1% and 15.3%. Ethiopia and Indonesia, accounting for 7% and 6.2% of total imports, are the next two major suppliers.

Imports from Brazil decreased by 27.2% to 1.1 million bags and from Indonesia decreased by 21.3% to 223,000 bags. However, imports from Vietnam increased by 12.9% to 904,000 bags, from Colombia increased by 14.4% to 551,000 bags, and from Ethiopia increased by 6.8% to 252,000 bags.

Nearly 90% of Japan’s total imports are green coffee, while instant coffee accounts for about 9%.

Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia account for nearly 75% of total soluble imports, of which shipments from Brazil increased by 5.4% to 145,000 bags, from Colombia increased by 20.5% to 28,000 bags while from Vietnam decreased by 14, 7% to 68,000 bags.