On May 7th, Taiwan Strait Network reported (Reporter Sun Chunyan, Correspondent Yu Xinyue, Lu Minlin Baoqiang) that as the coffee industry in Fujian enters the "fast lane", the import volume of coffee has also "skyrocketed". According to data released by Xiamen Customs yesterday, Fujian Province imported a total of 107 million yuan of coffee in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 126.41%. Among them, Xiamen's coffee import scale in the first quarter reached 97 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.8 times, accounting for 90.65% of the total coffee import value in Fujian Province during the same period.
From the perspective of import market, coffee imports in Fujian Province mainly come from countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road". Among them, in the first quarter, Fujian Province imported 85 million yuan of coffee from Brazil, a year-on-year increase of 36.6 times, accounting for 79.44% of the total value of coffee imports in Fujian Province during the same period. Meanwhile, coffee imports from Uganda, Colombia, and Kenya amounted to 6 million yuan, 6 million yuan, and 3 million yuan, respectively, with year-on-year growth of 54.08%, 90.28%, and 473.44%.
Xiamen customs officials introduced that coffee imports in Fujian Province are mainly green coffee beans, with a total import of 102 million yuan in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 5.34 times; In addition, Fujian Province also imported coffee liquid and coffee beans worth 4 million yuan and 540000 yuan respectively. For example, Luckin Coffee mainly imports coffee beans from countries such as Brazil and Vietnam. In the first quarter of this year, the value of imported coffee beans has exceeded 10 million yuan, showing strong growth momentum.