Thursday 23/October/2025 – 02:13 PM
Egypt’s imports of all types of coffee recorded a new record level during the first 7 months of the current year, amounting to $247 million, with an annual growth rate of more than 65%, with the increase in Egyptian demand for coffee purchases as a result of the stability of the economic situation. And calm prices.
Egypt’s coffee imports
The coffee import rate in Egypt during the first 7 months is equivalent to about 11.75 billion pounds, at the current exchange rate of 47.6 pounds to the dollar.
Egypt’s imports of unroasted, decaf coffee recorded $230.2 million during the first 7 months of this year, the largest percentage of which was from India, Uganda, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Vietnam, Yemen, and Oman, according to Egyptian foreign trade data viewed by Cairo 24.
Egypt’s imports of decaffeinated roasted coffee amounted to about $16.4 million, of which the most prominent countries exporting to Egypt are Colombia, Italy, Turkey, Nicaragua, Germany, Syria, Greece, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.
Egypt’s imports of roasted coffee
Egypt’s imports of decaffeinated roasted coffee amounted to $750,000, from Uganda, the Emirates, China and Spain.
Current figures indicate an annual increase of more than 65% in Egypt’s coffee imports, as the latest statistics indicate that Egypt imported an amount equivalent to 148 million dollars during the same period last year.
Egyptian coffee consumption
Earlier, Hassan Fawzi said Head of the coffee division The Federation of Chambers of Commerce told Cairo 24 that Egypt is a net importer of coffee beans at a rate of 80 thousand tons annually.
The head of the Coffee Division at the Federation of Chambers of Commerce said that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil and India are the most prominent reasons for the global increase in coffee prices since the beginning of the year. The head of the Coffee Division explained that the average price of a kilo of plain coffee is 520 pounds, and the average price of roasted coffee is 680 pounds.
