Coffee Export Hits US$1.2Bln in Jan-June

 

In late June and early July, the offered price of robusta coffee L2 of Vietnam slightly fell and hovered at US$1,800-1,830 a tonne, nearly 60 per cent higher than last year’s in the same period. According to statistics of the Ministry of Trade, Vietnam shipped 75,500 tonnes of coffee valued at US$115.5 million in June, representing an on-month decrease of 16.7 per cent in quantity and 16.7 per cent in value, but an on-year rise of 20.6 per cent in volume and 56 per cent in value. Germany and the US are top importers of Vietnamese coffee.

 

 

Country	May 2007		Jan-May 2007
	Volume (tonne)	Value (US$1,000)	Volume (tonne)	Value (US$1,000)
Germany	15,740	23,946	103,450	151,238
US	8,118	12,291	78,520	114,202
Italy	5,992	9,356	57,881	86,283
Indonesia	5,458	8,391	40,396	59,069
Spain	5,134	7,951	50,472	74,038
Philippines	3,709	5,537	9,662	13,940
Japan	3,486	5,446	24,974	38,174
South Korea	3,165	4,740	14,976	21,486
France	3,106	4,605	18,321	26,217
Switzerland	2,247	3,296	67,105	93,345
UK	2,213	3,376	24,995	35,665
Netherlands	1,875	2,918	19,267	28,549
Russia	1,493	2,312	10,652	15,601
Malaysia	1,487	2,189	9,954	14,370
Australia	1,456	2,171	8,196	11,800
Belgium	1,439	2,271	22,686	33,591
China	1,259	1,935	5,762	8,293
Poland	1,176	1,805	12,115	17,610
India	758	1017	2,073	2,619
South Africa	694	1,021	4,332	6,099
Canada	667	1,056	3,276	4,944
Portugal	505	784	3,189	4,968
Singapore	359	549	5,287	7,256
Greece	352	549	2,213	3,288
Demark	254	401	1,396	2,058
Arab Saudi	246	347	773	1,161
Taiwan	200	353	733	1,244
Slovenia	192	291	3,187	4,775
Czech	63	103	441	640
Estonia	58	92	538	758
Slovakia	57	86	230	345
Sweden	21	35	819	1,219

                                                                         (Source: Ministry of Trade)