3. Exporting

Before exporting, the coffee beans are sorted by shape and looks (“How Coffee is Processed & Roasted”). After, the coffee beans are stored in sisal or jute bags. The coffee is loaded into shipping containers or it is bulk shipped inside plastic lined containers (“Ten Steps to Coffee”). Coffee is the worlds most traded agricultural commodity. It accounts for exports worth an estimated $15.4 billion in 2009/2010 when around 93.4 million bags of coffee were shipped. For many countries, coffee exports are not only vital for foreign exchange but also account for a significant proportion of tax income and gross domestic product (“World Coffee Trade”).Some beans are exported through government coffee boards while others are exported through private buyers (“Overview of the Supply Chain”)

world-coffee-exports-by-origin

As the pie chart shows, Brazil makes up a majority of World Coffee Exports. Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of instant coffee and ground/roasted coffee. Both types of coffee from Brazil are exported to the US. Coffee exports. There are no taxes on coffee exports from Brazil. Coffee exports generated %5.15 billion in revenue for Brazil in 2013. Brazil will export an estimated of between 32 and 33 million bags of beans in 2014 (“World’s Largest Coffee Producer and Exporter: Brazil”).

After the Coffee has been exported, it is then imported.

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