Brazil’s coffee exports were slightly down in 2023 to 39.2 million bags; Robusta volumes rose a whopping 212%

MILAN – Despite a strong rebound in December, exports of all forms of coffee from Brazil were slightly down in calendar year 2023 to 39,246,728, or a 0.4% decrease over 2022, reports Cecafé in its monthly statistics. Green coffee exports were seemingly down by 0.3% to 35,525,630 bags, of which 30,818,110 of Arabica (-9.7%), while Robusta exports surged a whopping 212% to 4,707,520 bags, slightly below an all-time high of 4.927.184 bags in 2020. Sales of processed coffee (mostly soluble) were 1.8% down to 3,721,098 bags. Shipments to the three main destinations were lower than the previous year. Exports to the USA, Germany, Italy and Belgium were down by 24.2%, 26.7%, 6.9% and 24.6% respectively. On the other hand, coffee volumes exported to Japan rose by more than a quarter (+27.4%) to 2,386,083 bags. Shipments to China more than tripled to 1,480,011 bags. Cecafe is designing ways to make it possible to have permanent product lines of Brazilian coffee in all of Luckin’s coffee ...