From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – Brazilian coffee exports yielded US$ 3.4 billion between March 2006 and February this year. According to the Brazilian Coffee Exporter Council (CeCafé), this is an all-time record for a 12-month period. A total of 28 million 60-kilogram bags of coffee were exported.
According to CeCafé, in February alone, foreign sales amounted to US$ 284 million, with 2.1 million bags sold. In the first half of this year, the number of bags exported reached 4.4 million, against 3.6 million during the same period in 2006.
"The figures match the expectations and point to a gradual, moderate recovery," said the general director of Cecafé, Guilherme Braga, according to a press release published by the organisation. According to Cecafé, the results show not only an increase in the amount exported, but also in the price of the commodity in the international market.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
