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A 20ft container holds 275 to 320 bags of green coffee at 60 kg each, which works out to roughly 16.5 to 19.2 metric tonnes. Most Indonesian exporters plan on 300 bags, or 18 MT. That is the short answer, and it is the number to use when you build
Every few weeks a German roaster asks us the same question, and it’s usually the wrong one. “How much is the Kaffeesteuer on my container?” Zero. The Kaffeesteuer, Germany’s coffee tax, only applies once the beans are roasted inside Germany. Green coffee crossing the border is exempt from it entirely.
Most roasters who call us in 2026 lead with the same worry: how bad are the tariffs now? Here is the short answer. Importing green coffee to the USA from Indonesia is duty-free. Unroasted coffee enters under HTS code 0901.11.00 at a zero percent rate, and the reciprocal tariffs that
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
