Belgium Overtakes The US As Top Buyer Of Kenyan Coffee – CoffeeTalk

Belgium has become the main export market for Kenya’s coffee in the 2023/24 crop season, indicating potential opportunities for investors. Belgium bought 8,275.79 tonnes of Kenyan coffee worth Sh7.42 billion in 2023/24, representing 16.82% of the total share of the commodity’s exports from the East African nation. This performance surpasses the US, which imported 7,917.13 tonnes of coffee from Kenya worth Sh6.68 billion in 2023/24 and equivalent of 16.09% of Nairobi’s exports of the commodity for the season.

The US was the top buyer of Kenyan coffee in the 2022/23 season, bagging 11,228 tonnes worth Sh7.93 billion to account for a 23.41 percent share of the East African nation’s total exports of the beverage. Belgium, on the other hand, imported 5,026 tonnes of coffee from Kenya worth Sh 3.91 billion to account for 10.48 percent of the country’s total exports of the beverage. The performance in the Belgium market could provide an impetus for Kenyan exporters already facing headwinds in the US market to a 10% trade tariff imposed by President Donald Trump effective August 1, 2025.

Kenyan coffee is marketed either through the weekly Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) or sold directly to buyers abroad. Fresh data by the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) shows that Kenya’s overall coffee exports rose by 1,242.09 tonnes in the 2023/24 coffee year, with Belgium, the United States, and Germany as the leading export markets.

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