Viet Nam lost top coffee supplier status in 12 countries

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UN Statistics Division, UN Comtrade, HS 090111 (coffee, not roasted, not decaffeinated), annual imports by partner, current US$, as reported by each importing country; read from the UN Comtrade API via the progrss vault (vault rule GUIDELINES §4.11; un-comtrade 24 matches, 0 mismatches). Two-year averages (2017–18 and 2023–24) smooth one-year swings. Set: the 80 economies (Viet Nam itself excluded) that reported this code in all four years and imported at least US$1 million a year on average in both periods; the vault holds each reporter's world total and its ten largest partners. Top supplier = largest partner by value, so a supplier outside an importer's top ten cannot lead. Hub economies that re-export (Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands, Belgium, the UAE, Panama) are not counted as origins; 'Areas nes' is not an origin either; where one of these led, the next partner is the top supplier. Ranking is by value, not tonnes: Brazil sells more arabica, which fetches a higher price than robusta, so value favours it in some markets. Partner is the origin as recorded by the importer; the exporter's own figures (mirror data) can differ and are not shown. Counts: Viet Nam led in 17 importers in 2017–18 and 7 in 2023–24 (Spain, Indonesia, the Philippines, Portugal, Thailand, Malaysia, Oman); it lost the lead in 12 (Bulgaria, China, Ecuador, Estonia, India, Macao, Mexico, Panama, Romania, Tunisia, Ukraine, South Africa) and gained it in two (Malaysia from Indonesia, Oman from India). Viet Nam's sales to the 80 importers: US$2.79 billion a year in 2017–18, US$3.46 billion in 2023–24 (+24%); their total green coffee imports US$18.6 billion to US$28.0 billion (+50%). Viet Nam's share is a lower bound where it fell outside an importer's top ten. Single-year check, 70 importers reporting 2017, 2018, 2023, 2024 and 2025: Viet Nam led in 11 (2017), 14 (2018), 8 (2023), 6 (2024), 5 (2025); Brazil led in 31, 32, 40, 43, 40. Map colour: yellow = the 12 importers whose top supplier was Viet Nam in 2017–18 and another country in 2023–24; hover shows Viet Nam's share of each importer's 2023–24 coffee imports (0 = not among its ten largest suppliers). Counts and shares are progrss calculations. Comtrade images may be used with credit.