Coffee Markets: Destination Intelligence

This section is the destination side of the Intelligence Desk. The coffee desk explains the origin: what Indonesian coffee is, how it is graded, processed, and shipped. The Markets section looks the other way, at where the coffee goes and what the buyers there need.

Each market page covers the same ground. How the market consumes coffee, and at what scale. How the trade is structured, from roasters to the out of home channel to retail. What buyers in that market look for, in quality, certification, and documentation. And the rules that apply to importing green coffee there, since the regulatory picture differs by destination and decides what has to travel with the cargo.

We start with the markets we serve today. The first page covers Portugal, the corridor closest to us. The second steps back to the European Union as a whole, the largest coffee importing bloc in the world and the one where the EUDR now governs how green coffee enters. The third covers the Americas, primarily the United States and Canada, where Indonesian coffee meets a deep specialty segment under a different set of import rules.

The section grows as the corridors do. If you are buying into a market we have not yet written up, Contact Us and we can talk it through directly.