Brazil’s coffee exports to the U.S. drop 53% in September after Trump’s tariffs

Brazil java exports to the United States dropped by 53% successful September 2025 compared to the aforesaid play successful 2024, totaling 333 1000 bags. Data were published by the National Council of Coffee Exporters (Cecafé).

“The diminution was potentialized by the 50% tariffs imposed by the American president Donald Trump connected Brazilian coffee, which drastically impacted shipments to the US, the largest user successful the satellite and main importer of the Brazilian product”, said Márcio Ferreira, Cecafé’s president.

According to the executive, aft a telephone betwixt the presidents of Brazil and the USA past week, Cecafé requested a gathering with the vice-president and curate of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (MDIC) Geraldo Alckmin, who leads the inter-ministerial Committee of Economic and Commercial Negotiations and Countermeasures to reenforce the relevance and interdependency of some countries successful the java market.

Besides being the world’s largest java producer, Brazil accounts for 30% of the java marketplace stock successful the US, according to information from the United States Department of Statistics. The state is the starring supplier of java to the United States, particularly the arabica kind. In 2024, 83% of the java that reached America belonged to this type.

Last year, the USA represented 16,1% of each java exports from Brazil, accounting, successful presumption of revenue, for astir US$2 billion.

Overall, Brazil exported 3,750 cardinal 60kg bags of each java types successful September, a driblet of 18,4% successful narration to the aforesaid period of the erstwhile year. On the different hand, overseas speech income accrued by 11% reaching US$1,369 billion.

In the archetypal 3 months of the 2025/26 harvest, show follows a akin signifier to the erstwhile cycle: Brazilian java shipments dropped 20,6%, totaling 9,676 cardinal bags, portion gross accrued by 12%, reaching 3,521 billion.

Leading destinations for Brazilian coffee

Even with taxation, the United States remains the biggest purchaser of Brazilian java successful the year-to-date (from January to September). According to Cecafé, the state imported 4,361 cardinal bags, which accounted for 15% of full Brazilian exports during this period.

Next, determination are: Germany, with 3,727 cardinal bags (-30.5%); Italy, with 2,324 cardinal bags (-23.3%); Japan, with 1,891 cardinal bags (+15%); and Belgium, with 1,703 cardinal bags (-48.8%).

In the archetypal 9 months of 2025, arabica java remains Brazil’s astir exported bean, with 23.2 cardinal bags, making up 79.7% of the total.

The canephora taxon (conilon + robusta) comes next, with 3.062 cardinal bags (10.5% of the total), followed by instant coffee, with 2.799 cardinal bags (9.6%), and roasted and crushed coffee, with 43,644 bags (0.1%).