S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Arabs stood out among Brazil’s main trading partners in the coffee sector in the first four months of 2021. The block imported 678,000 bags of 60 kg of Brazilian produce, a 40.5% increase compared to the volume purchased in the same period last year. The data were released in a monthly report by the Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council (Cecaf\u00e9).<\/p>\n
From January to April, the foreign exchange revenue generated from sales to the Arab countries was USD 71 million, in comparison to USD 54.9 million in the same months of 2020. The participation of the block also increased. Now, Arab purchases are 4.6% of the total sold by Brazil, against 3.5% in the same period of the previous year.<\/p>\n
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In terms of total exports this year, Brazilian coffee shipments reached 14.8 million bags, improving 8.6% compared to the first four-month period of 2020. Shipments generated USD 1.95 billion, which implies an increase of 6.1% concerning the amount obtained in the same previous period.<\/p>\n
April<\/strong><\/p>\n In April, however, Cecaf\u00e9 indicated that total Brazilian coffee exports fell by 8.5% compared to the numbers recorded in the same month in 2020. The total exported in this year was 3,3 million bags. In the last month, foreign exchange revenue also decreased, this time by 7.4%, yielding USD 447.2 million to the country.<\/p>\n In face of the logistical challenges that the commercial sector currently faces, Nicolas Rueda, the entity’s president, considers the performance to be positive. The executive explains that the volume shipped in the month was the result of the logistical efficiency of Brazilian exporters, who faced challenges posed by COVID-19 and by the concentration of trade flow in Asia, which reduced the availability of containers for the export of the beans.<\/p>\n Cecaf\u00e9’s president also recalls that the crop that is beginning to be harvested this year in the country is in an alarming scenario. \u201cIt is known that the next crop will be low in the biennial cycle of Brazilian production. Furthermore, the sector continues to watch for weather conditions, which have already impacted the volume to be harvested due to the lower rainfall in the last quarter of 2020 and the beginning of 2021,\u201d pondered Rueda.<\/p>\n Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The volume purchased by the bloc in the first four months of the year was 678,000 bags of Brazilian produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":292656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[20475,12363,9583,38391,5475,10669,35340,9805,1916,2188,4641,5476,2189,4642],"class_list":{"0":"post-292672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arab-bloc","9":"tag-arabes-en","10":"tag-arabs-en","11":"tag-bloco-arabe-2-en","12":"tag-brazilian-coffee","13":"tag-cafe-ar","14":"tag-cafes-do-brasil-en-2","15":"tag-cecafe-en","16":"tag-coffee","17":"tag-export","18":"tag-exportacao-en","19":"tag-green-coffee","20":"tag-import","21":"tag-importacao-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The volume purchased by the bloc in the first four months of the year was 678,000 bags of Brazilian produce.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}