São Paulo – Brazilian producers shipped a record-high amount of coffee abroad in the last crop-year, which spanned from July of last year to June of this year, according to numbers released this Wednesday (8th) by the Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council (CeCafé). The amount sold was 36.4 million 60-kilogram bags, up 6.9% and grossing US$ 6.8 billion, up 28% from the past crop-year.
In the first half of this year, Brazilian coffee export revenues also increased to US$ 3.1 billion, up 8.9% from H1 2014. Export volume was up 0.4% to 17.6 million bags.
Coffee export revenues to Arab countries increased, but volume went down. Brazil grossed US$ 106.6 million from coffee sales to Arab countries in H1 this year, up 9.8% from US$ 97 million in H1 2014. A total of 704,600 bags were sold, down 4% from 734,800 in H1 of last year.
CeCafé CEO Guilherme Braga underscored the best-ever performance from 2014/2015, especially regarding the Conilon variety, whose sales soared 133% to 4.5 million bags. Conilon, as well as Arabica, is one of the premium coffee varieties with higher added value.
In H1, Europe was the leading foreign buyer of Brazilian coffee, taking in 54% of total exports. North America bought 24%, Asia bought 16% and South America, 3%. Individually, the United States was the primary buyer, followed by Germany, Italy, Belgium and Japan.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
