US imports of Coffee

US imports under HTS 0901 at a glance

Between March and July 2026, US importers entered $4.25 billion of coffee under HTS heading 0901, from 48 of the 55 origin countries covered here and across 30 ten-digit tariff lines — roughly $849 million a month of customs value under a single four-digit heading.

Chapter 09 covers coffee, tea, maté and spices; heading 0901 is one of its larger entries by value, which is why the duty treatment below is worth checking line by line.

Who exports coffee to the United States

Colombia is the largest origin with $810 million, or 19.1% of the heading, with Brazil at 16.5% and Honduras at 13.4%. The top three take 48.9% between them — enough concentration to matter when one origin's duty treatment changes, but not so much that a buyer has no alternative to qualify.

Mexico and Canada sit near the top of the table, and the duty numbers reflect it: Mexico entered 100% of its value free of duty and Canada entered 99.6% of its value free of duty. Cargo that qualifies under USMCA and is claimed correctly at entry pays nothing; cargo that does not qualify, or that is never claimed, pays the ordinary rate. The certification is the whole difference.

What importers actually paid in duty

Most of this heading enters duty-free. Only 0.3% of the entered value was dutiable, and across all origins CBP collected $1.1 million — about $0.03 of duty per $100 of goods. The headline rate on the dutiable portion was 9.2%, but it applies to a small slice, so the number that matters to a landed-cost model is the $0.03.

Duty treatment is fairly uniform across origins here: the countries with real volume all land within a narrow band of $0.00–$0.18 per $100 of goods. Where that happens, switching origin does little for the duty bill, and savings have to come from classification, valuation or freight.

The 10-digit lines under heading 0901

30 ten-digit lines carried trade under this heading in the period. The largest, 0901.11.00.25 (not decaffeinated), took 62.2% of the heading at $2.64 billion. 0901.11.00.15, 0901.21.00.20 and 0901.11.00.40 follow. Rates diverge between those lines, so the classification your broker files is worth checking against the goods rather than carried over from the last entry.

What the duty stack looks like

The rate on an entry is not one number. It is a stack: the general (column 1) rate for the 10-digit line, less any trade-agreement preference the goods qualify for, plus whatever additional duties apply to that product and origin, all applied to the customs value declared. The $0.03 per $100 above is what that stack averaged across every entry in this heading — a benchmark, not a quote.

For the origins carrying the most volume, the per-country breakdowns go a level deeper: Colombia (0901.11.00), Brazil (0901.11.00) and Honduras (0901.11.00). To price a specific shipment, put your 10-digit code and country of origin into the tariff simulator.

What this means for your next shipment

The practical sequence is: confirm the 10-digit line against the actual goods, confirm origin under the substantial-transformation rules rather than the shipping address, then price the duty on that pair. Airlift USA moves the cargo and coordinates classification and entry filing through our licensed broker network, so the code agreed at booking is the one on the entry.

For the operational side rather than the tariff side, see the Spices Logistics Guide guide for how this cargo moves, the Brazil to USA lane for transit times and ports and the heading index to compare against the rest of chapter 09.