YTD Brazilian coffee exports down 6.3% in 2021

Total Brazilian coffee exports reached 3,431,172 60-kg bags in October 2021, down 23.8% from the 4,504,059 bags recorded in the same month last year. In terms of foreign exchange revenue, however, exports grew 11.3% in the same comparison, jumping from US$ 564.7 million to the current US$ 628.5 million. The data are from CECAFE (the Brazilian coffee exporters council).

Last month’s results raised the country’s exports to 33,274,973 bags in the year,
generating $4.815 billion. This represents a decline of 6.3% in volume, but an increase of 7%
in revenue compared to the movement between January and the end of October 2020.

In the crop year 2021/22, the results between July and October were similar: exports declined 20.7% to 12.331 million bags, but revenue increased 6.5% to US$ 2.011 billion.

See below a comparison of Brazilian coffee exports in the first nine months of the last three years and the main destinations for Brazilian coffee abroad. Data are from DataLiner:

Brazilian Coffee Exports (HS 0901 and 2101) | Jan to Sep 2019-2021 | TEU

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Top 10 destinations for Brazilian Coffee Exports (HS 0901 and 2101) | Jan to Sept 2020-2021 | WTMT

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“The drop in export volume reflects the continuity of the logistical bottlenecks in world maritime trade. The scenario is worrying because industry experts point out that these obstacles should drag on through 2022 due to the large volume of Brazilian agricultural products stuck in ports and the harvests that are shipped from the second half of the year onwards”, explains Nicolas Rueda, president of CECAFE.

Another concern is rising costs, which ” have contributed to the sharp rises in inflation, causing a shortage of essential inputs for agribusiness in Brazil and an escalation in prices that is beginning to worry producers as a whole. Logically, the coffee sector is not spared from these afflictions”, he comments.

Destinations

From 2021 to the end of October, Brazil exported coffee to 119 countries. The United States continues as the main importer, having purchased 6.468 million bags, an amount practically stable compared to the 6.489 million acquired in the same period in 2020. This volume represented 19.4% of total shipments in the country so far.

Germany, with a 16.5% market share, imported 5.474 million bags (-8.2%) and occupied second place in the ranking. Italy ranks third, with the purchase of 2.383 million bags (-7.7%); Belgium purchased 2,270 million bags (-22.6%), and Japan purchased 2.074 million bags (+12.5%).

Another highlight is the appearance of two other coffee-producing countries among the main destinations for Brazilian coffee exports. Colombia occupies seventh place in the ranking with its acquisition of 945,694
bags between January and October 2021, showing a substantial increase of 56.7% compared to purchases made in the first 10 months of last year. Of this total, 885,179 bags are of the green grain, used for industrialization and domestic consumption. Mexico appears in eighth place, with the importation of 787,485 bags (-12.5%), with 763,131 bags of in natura coffee.

Types of coffee
Arabica coffee was the most exported from January to October 2021, with 26.771 million bags shipped abroad, which corresponded to 80.5% of the total. Of the canephora variety ((robust + conilon), 3.251 million bags were shipped, representing 9.8%. In the instant coffee segment, 3.215 million bags were exported (9.7%), and 37,540 bags of roasted and ground coffee were shipped (0.1%).

Ports

The Santos (SP) maritime complex is the main exporter of coffee from Brazil this year, shipping
25.552 million bags between January and October, equivalent to 76.8% of the total. Next are the ports of Rio de Janeiro, which accounted for 16.1% of shipments, or 5.368 million bags, and Vitória (ES), with the dispatch of 977,384 bags abroad, representing 2.9%.

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