Latin American Coffee Exports Gained 0.3% in July, Anacafe Says
Coffee exports from Colombia, Mexico and seven other Latin American countries gained 0.3 percent from a year earlier in July.
Total shipments rose to 1.97 million bags from 1.96 million bags in July 2010, Guatemala’s National Coffee Association, or Anacafe, said in a report e-mailed yesterday.
Exports from Colombia, the world’s second-largest producer of arabica beans, dropped 25 percent to 458,000 bags, while sales from Honduras declined 7 percent to 199,228 bags. Deliveries gained 16 percent to 461,204 bags in Peru and advanced 10 percent to 315,720 bags in Guatemala.
The following figures are from Anacafe, citing data from the countries for production of mild washed arabica beans.
Country July 2011 July 2010
(bags) (bags)
Colombia 458,000 612,042
Costa Rica 76,822 79,019
El Salvador 91,330 47,417
Guatemala 315,720 285,842
Honduras 199,228 214,840
Mexico 256,828 187,131
Nicaragua 96,437 131,773
Peru 461,204 398,145
Dominican Rep. 10,894 4,367
Total 1,966,463 1,960,576
A bag of coffee weighs 60 kilograms (132 pounds).
To contact the reporter on this story: Maria Kolesnikova in London at mkolesnikova@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Claudia Carpenter at ccarpenter2@bloomberg.net
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