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Every Japan-bound lot that leaves our Medan warehouse gets one extra step most other shipments skip: a phytosanitary & ISOPROCARB certificate stapled to the invoice before it ever reaches the port. Miss it, and customs in Yokohama will not look at the rest of your paperwork, no matter how good
Ask a first-time Canadian buyer what worries them about importing green coffee from Indonesia and most say the same word: tariffs. That’s the wrong worry. Green coffee enters Canada duty free under HS code 0901.11, and unroasted beans are also exempt from GST at the border as a basic food
Every few weeks, a UK roaster emails us worried about the tariff on importing green coffee from Indonesia. Here is the short version, so you can stop worrying about the wrong thing: there is no tariff. Green coffee beans, unroasted and caffeinated, enter the UK at 0% import duty and
Grade 3 green coffee beans are the quiet workhorse of high-volume coffee menus. If you run a roastery or a commercial coffee company supplying cafes, you already know the math: when a drink is built on milk, syrup, and ice, paying a specialty premium for the green bean rarely shows
Mold in green coffee beans is a storage and processing defect caused by excess moisture, and it ruins both the safety and the flavor of a lot before it ever reaches the roaster. As a green coffee supplier, we cup and grade against this defect on every shipment. This guide
The first time an infused coffee lands on your cupping table, you smell it before you taste it. A sample can throw a strawberry or lychee across the room while it’s still dry, louder than anything the bean’s own genetics would ever give you. That smell is the whole story.
