In May, the country exported 149,773 tons of coffee worth of $ 294.1 million, down by 3.8 per cent in quantity and 1.2 per cent in value compared with the previous month. The figure was up by 22.6 per cent in quantity and 7.2 per cent in value over the same month of 2017.

The average coffee export price in the first five months of this year was at $ 1,932.5 per ton, down by 14.6 per cent year – on – year.

Germany was the country’s biggest coffee export market of Vietnam in the first five months of this year with 114,545 tons worth of $ 208.72 million, down by 7.8 per cent in quantity and 22.6 per cent in value over the same period last year.

It was followed by the U.S with 89,764 tons worth of $ 174.35 million, down by 14 per cent in quantity and 26.7 per cent in value compared with the same period last year; and then Italy – 63,701 tons worth of $ 118.61 million, up by 2.4 per cent in quantity and down by 13.2 per cent in value.

In the first five months of this year, Vietnam’s exports of coffee to Indonesia rocketed by 997 per cent in quantity and 771 per cent in value to 52,408 tons worth of $ 101.57 million; to South Africa – up by 275.7 per cent in quantity and 219.9 per cent in value to 4,884 tons worth of $ 8.88 million; to Greece – up by 157.7 per cent in quantity and 114.4 per cent in value to 5,401 tons worth of $ 9.97 million; to Russia – up by 108.8 per cent in quantity and 76.8 per cent in value to 39,807 tons worth of $ 84.26 million; to Denmark – up by 98.8 per cent in quantity and 72 per cent in value to 1,171 tons worth of $ 2.21 million.

However, the exports of coffee to Singapore fell sharply by 52.4 per cent in quantity and 59.3 per cent in value to 562 tons worth of $ 1,64 million; and the exports to the U.S, Belgium, Germany and Canada decreased sharply by 26.7 per cent; 25.2 per cent; 22.6 per cent and 20.6 per cent, respectively year – on – year.

Market	First 5 months of 2018		First 5 months of 2018 vs. same period of 2017 (%)
	Quantity	Value (US$)	Quantity	Value
Total	877,804	1,696,341,988	23.84	5.71
Germany	114,545	208,720,054	-7.81	-22.55
The U.S	89,764	174,350,346	-14.12	-26.71
Italy	63,701	118,605,563	2.42	-13.24
Indonesia	52,408	101,569,395	997.09	771.09
Spain	54,873	101,258,862	16.91	-1.95
Japan	50,413	100,942,648	23.02	5.76
Russia	39,807	84,255,524	108.75	76.82
The Philippines	33,952	64,684,404	78.25	54.07
Algeria	34,705	64,383,317	29.56	10.84
Belgium	32,762	59,178,107	-10.39	-25.18
India	25,665	44,918,743	91.79	65.15
China	17,426	43,879,516	21.27	2.88
Britain	22,187	41,322,701	32.06	5.92
France	18,548	33,708,248	23.36	5.91
Malaysia	15,810	31,669,177	48.33	29.23
Thailand	16,315	31,644,110	95.11	54.64
South Korea	14,593	31,149,837	-15.69	-15.95
Mexico	17,530	30,198,152	31.45	9.84
Australia	9,244	18,003,487	60.96	33.82
Poland	6,803	17,026,195	3.2	0.11
Portugal	7,656	14,113,520	45.16	20.59
The Netherlands	5,499	11,321,587	-3	-17.8
Egypt	6,340	11,245,807	78.74	54.75
Greece	5,401	9,996,374	157.68	114.44
Israel	3,312	9,348,516	12.96	-10.48
South Africa	4,884	8,878,697	275.69	219.92
Romania	1,498	4,999,806	-17.24	-2.9
Canada	2,384	4,763,342	-6.62	-20.63
Denmark	1,171	2,213,912	98.81	71.99
New Zealand	975	1,869,998	55.25	26.49
Singapore	562	1,639,537	-52.37	-59.31
Cambodia	240	1,149,638	50	68.42
Switzerland	223	446,817	13.78	1.65