Soluble Coffee

Brazilian Soluble Coffee. Brazil is the largest producer, exporter and second largest consumer market for coffee. It has a plural and diversified coffee culture, with many aromas and flavors originating from Arabica and robust crops, cultivated from north to south of the country.

The total coffee exported from January to August 2020 was 26.4 million bags, being the second largest volume shipped for the period in the last five years, generating a total of US $ 3.4 billion in exports. Among the varieties shipped in this period, robusta coffee stands out for its 12.9% increase in exports, when compared to the volume of the variety exported in the same period last year. This variety of coffee corresponded to 11.6% of total exports (equivalent to 3 million bags shipped), while arabica coffee represented 78.3% of shipments (20.6 million bags) and soluble, 10 , 1% (2.7 million bags).

The top five destinations for Brazilian coffee were: United States, which imported 4.9 million bags of coffee (18.5% of the total shipped in the period); Germany, with 4.5 million bags imported (17%); Italy, with 2 million bags (7.6%); Belgium, with 2 million bags (7.3%); and Japan, with 1.3 million bags (5.1%). Following are: Turkey, with 863,900 bags (3.3%); Russian Federation, with 849,500 bags (3.2%); Mexico, with 649,300 bags (2.5%); Spain, with 634.7 thousand bags (2.4%); and Canada, with 562 thousand bags (2.1%).

Brazil, a country that is traditionally the largest producer, exporter and second largest consumer of coffee in the world, was also the largest exporter of soluble (industrialized) coffee in the accumulated period from October 2019 to June 2020, with equivalent foreign sales to 2.94 million bags of 60kg. The export of soluble coffee registered an increase of 7.3% in the first four months of this year, compared to the same period last year. Brazil shipped the equivalent of 1.33 million bags of 60 kilograms, compared to 1.24 million bags last year. The entity's Institutional Relations director, Aguinaldo Lima, says in a statement that the sector's performance is significant, mainly because the industries revised their estimates after the new coronavirus pandemic decree.

The report on the Coffee Market - July 2020, of the International Coffee Organization (ICO), points out that Brazil was the largest exporter of soluble coffee in the period from October 2019 to June 2020, with sales abroad equivalent to 2, 94 million bags of 60 kg. When compared to the same period last year, the number was slightly lower, with a drop of 1.8%.

In the first four months of 2020, Brazil traded soluble coffee with 87 countries. The main customers were the United States, with the import of 254,310 bags. Following is Russia, with 152,415 bags; Argentina, with 94,590 bags; Japan, with 81,733 bags; and Indonesia, with the acquisition of 77,582 bags. According to the director of Abics, among the 15 main nations that buy soluble coffee in Brazil, two stand out, which are also major manufacturers of the product. "Mexico and the Netherlands are among the major producers of soluble and showed surprising growth when compared to the imports they made in the first four months of 2019. The Dutch increased by 1,435% and the Mexicans by 555%, purchases of the Brazilian product", informs.