Coffee exports to China rises 23.1% from January to May

Brazilian coffee exports to China increased by 23.1% during the first five months of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018.

The country has exported 88,179 bags of coffee to China from January to May in 2019, according to the Coffee Exporters Council of Brazil (Cecafé).

Brazil is the largest producer and exporter of coffee in the world, it accounts for 38% of the world coffee market with 300,000 producers.

Until June, during the 2018-2019 harvest period, Brazil exported a total of 41.1m bags of coffee, a 35% increase compared to the previous year.

European and American markets

The European Union imported, from different countries, a physical volume of 42.71m bags of 60kg of coffee from October 2018 to March 2019, of which 8.92m bags were purchased from Cafés do Brasil, which corresponds to 20.9% of this total.

In the same period, the United States imported 4.33m bags of coffee, equivalent to 28.9% of the country’s purchases of the product.

The following graph, based on DataLiner data, shows the Brazilian exports of coffee to the world (China included) from January 2015 to May 2019:

Sources: Xinhua and Embrapa Café

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