Peru exported US$705 million of coffee between January and August 2026, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) said on 14 October, in figures published by El Peruano, the state's official daily. Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Sayuri Bayona gave the figure at the launch of Expocafé Perú, a coffee trade fair that El Peruano reported will run from 26 to 29 November in the Miraflores district of Lima.
The exporters' association ADEX counts the same eight months a little differently. Its export report for August 2026 put coffee at US$701.74 million for January to August, up 0.6% on the same months of 2025, Rumbo Económico reported on 8 October 2026. The two totals come from separate counts, and neither report explains the gap between them.
Peru's eight months come to a little over half of the US$1.282 billion that Brazil's exporters' council, Cecafé, reported for Brazil's coffee exports in September 2026 alone, as we reported in our 10 October story on the ICO's September report.
How does that compare with the JNC's forecast for 2026?
The export figures came two weeks after Peru's National Coffee Board (Junta Nacional del Café, or JNC) forecast a weaker year. Its general manager, Lorenzo Castillo Castillo, projected 2026 coffee exports of about US$1.5 billion for 4.8 million quintals, against US$1.849 billion for 5.35 million quintals in 2025, Agraria reported on 1 October 2026. Agraria said the projection means a fall of 18% in value and 10.3% in volume. A quintal is a traditional sack weight in the coffee trade. The board's forecast of a 2026 harvest of 220,000 to 230,000 metric tons is in our 4 October report on Peru's crop.
On the figure Mincetur published on 14 October, a full-year total of US$1.5 billion would leave about US$795 million for September to December. That is our arithmetic on two published numbers, and it is not a forecast by Mincetur, ADEX or the JNC.
What do exporters say drove the first eight months?
ADEX attributed coffee's result to larger volumes from a harvest that El Niño brought forward, and to a higher average export price abroad, Rumbo Económico reported on 8 October. The JNC's outlook on price runs the other way. Castillo told Agraria on 1 October that he expects an average 2026 export price of US$300 a quintal, against US$340 in 2025. The ADEX figure describes January to August; the JNC figure is a projection for the full year.
The United States and Germany together took 44% of Peru's coffee exports from January to August 2026, according to the ADEX report as Rumbo Económico described it. Shipments to the United States rose 16.1% and shipments to Germany fell 30.8%, the report showed. ADEX also named Belgium, Canada, Colombia, the United Kingdom, Sweden and France among the main buyers. ADEX's report shows that coffee made up 90.7% of Peru's traditional farm exports over the eight months, within total farm exports of US$8.005 billion, up 1.9% on 2025.
How big is Peru in world coffee?
Mincetur described Peru as the eighth-largest coffee exporter in the world and said its coffee exports passed US$1.8 billion in 2025, El Peruano reported on 14 October. ADEX put 2025 exports of green coffee, unroasted and not decaffeinated, at about US$1.796 billion, Agraria reported on 2 October 2026, and the JNC put them at US$1.849 billion. The three bodies count in different ways, and none of the reports reconciles them.
Bayona said more than 300 companies export Peruvian coffee each year and that 59% of them are micro, small or medium firms, El Peruano reported on 14 October. She said Mincetur's Ruta Productiva Exportadora, a program of free training and technical help for small exporters, is one of the ways the ministry supports them. According to El Peruano, the ministry will back 12 organizations from that program and four from Perú Exporta Industria at Expocafé Perú in November.
Most of Peru's coffee is washed arabica grown by smallholders on the eastern slopes of the Andes, as our explainer What Is Peruvian Coffee? describes.
Photograph: wisnu dwi wibowo, Unsplash.
