China has fast-tracked authorization for 183 Brazilian coffee exporters as the 50% United States tariff on Brazilian goods begins to reshape global supply trade routes.
The move comes as agriculture officials in Brazil across numerous sectors — including coffee, fish and mangoes — are set to negotiate for potential exemptions from the 50% rate. Groups like the U.S. National Coffee Association and the Brazilian coffee exporters council CECAFÉ have also been working behind the scenes to try to find tariff exemptions for Brazilian coffee in the U.S.
The Trump administration’s tariffs on coffee from Brazil are widely expected to result in higher coffee prices in the U.S., as importing businesses pay the fee to bring green coffee ashore.
Announced by the Chinese Embassy in Brazil and by multiple Brazilian agriculture officials through social media, the new Chinese trade certifications will extend for five years, helping to meet a rapidly growing domestic demand for green coffee in China’s booming coffee consumer market.
Vinícius Estrela, executive director of the Brazil Specialty Coffee Association, told the South China Morning Post that the 183 mark was “not a normal number,” emphasizing the potential scale of the trade shift.
Over the last two decades, Brazil has consistently been the largest single source of U.S. coffee imports, typically accounting for 30-36% of the green coffee market, according to USDA statistics.
In China, the new deal with Brazilian exporters follows an approximately $2.5 billion trade deal signed last year between the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency ApexBrasil and China’s largest coffee retailer, Luckin Coffee. That deal called for the purchase of 240,000 tons of green coffee from Brazil between 2025 and 2029.
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Nick Brown
Nick Brown is the editor of Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine.
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