U.S. coffee imports 2023, by country of origin

Colombia was the biggest coffee trading partner of the United States in 2023, with the U.S. importing 1.55 billion dollars’ worth in that year. Brazil, another South American country known for its coffee tradition, was second, exporting over 1.5 billion dollars of coffee to the U.S. in the same year. 

Colombian coffee

Colombia is well known for its coffee. The fictional character Juan Valdez, used in advertisements for the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, has become an icon in popular culture, instantly associated with Colombian coffee. In 2020, the country was the third largest coffee grower in the world, producing 14.3 million 60-kilogram bags of coffee. About 16 percent of the coffee imported by the United States from Colombia was Fair Trade certified in 2016. Fair trade is a movement which aims to improve conditions for workers in agriculture and the environmental sustainability of the crops harvested. In the same year, 22 million dollars of the imported coffee from Colombia was organic.