We discovered & grow it passionately.
Now we pour it proudly.
As proud guardians of Ethiopian coffee, we connect authentic origin to global opportunity and bridge rich tradition with modern innovation. We safeguard a living heritage that fuels a nation’s economy, empowers communities, and fills three billion cups every day.
Coffee Production
7.59M60 kg bagsCoffee Exports
7.56M60 kg bagsGlobal Coffee Consumption
177M60 kg bagsArabica Varieties
6,000+indigenous to EthiopiaGrowing Areas
16classified to Kew depthFeatured exporters
Every exporter here is a member of the association, and membership is checked before it is granted. A company applies with a renewed coffee trading business licence, whose renewal date the association verifies, and a Certificate of Competency issued by the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority — so a member is a licensed, competent Ethiopian exporter before they appear on this page at all.
What each member says about their origins, processes and certifications is their own account of their business. The association is building those accounts into a record a buyer can act on: each claim evidenced, dated and confirmed with the member, so that sourcing from an ECA member starts from something checked rather than something read.
Tell us about yourself
Coffee Exporters
See the corridor before you commit
We show you every condition on a lot before you commit, so a shipment never fails after it has left.
What you’ll need
Nothing a member does not already bring.
You join on the same terms as any member. What differs is what opens: the Buyers Guide, matching against what you buy, and a direct channel to the members holding the coffee.
Membership fee
The association confirms fees with you directly.
Buyer
Know what's available before you ask
Members get the Buyers Guide — every verified Ethiopian lot, graded and compliance-cleared, matched to what you are looking for and connected straight to the exporter who holds it.
What you’ll need
Nothing a member does not already bring.
You join on the same terms as any member. What differs is what opens: the Buyers Guide, matching against what you buy, and a direct channel to the members holding the coffee.
Membership fee
The association confirms fees with you directly.
Beyond farmers collective, we brew success with the coffee family
TO BE EDITED WITH BUNNA COOP VALUE PROPOSTION
We classify origin, variety, process and flavour to the depth a buyer can act on — so a lot arrives already described, not waiting to be explained.
Connect with our bean exporters
Value proposition
Order finest Ethiopian brands
Value proposition
Power your cafe with Bunna Coop
Value proposition
Join our coffee academy
Value proposition
Sip & support
Value proposition
Give back to the farmer
Value proposition
Featured brands
Ethiopia exports its coffee green, and almost all the value of roasting it is earned somewhere else. These companies already roast and pack under their own name in Addis Ababa — one of them since 1953.
What stands between them and a customer abroad is not the coffee. It is a storefront, a payment that crosses a border, and a parcel that arrives. The association is building that, and these are the brands it will open with.
Our events where origin meets opportunity
The Addis Coffee Cup runs as an embassy rotation through the year, with a diplomacy evening, the members’ forum and an international delegation around it.
From December, Europe asks for proof. Members already have it.
EUDR asks for the plot your coffee grew on and evidence it was not deforested after 2020. The file has to exist before the coffee moves — which is exactly why we build it with you at registration rather than at the border.
We hold the geolocation, the custody chain and the certificates for our members, and clear them before a lot is offered — not after a contract is signed. A member meets a European buyer already proven.
Plot geolocation · deforestation-free evidence · due-diligence statement
Issued, held and verifiable against the lot they were issued for
ECA Coffee Pulse
Prices, volumes and market access, written for members rather than for the wire.
Every month
Coffee trading report
The season in numbers — what moved, at what grade, and to whom.
After the season closes
Harvest & market outlook
Where harvest stands area by area, and what it means for the months ahead.
October to February
Three things we now do that we could not do before.
We record your plot
Your land is mapped and registered once, so the proof a European buyer needs is ready before anyone asks for it.
We prove your grade
Grading happens at intake and travels with the lot, so the quality you achieved is the quality you are paid for.
We pay you on delivery
You settle the day you deliver, at your own grade — not at a season average, months later.
Training the sector actually asked for
The association’s own programme, plus three bundles built with the people who set the standards — SCA, CQI and the Jimma Agricultural Research Center.
Coffee Cupping, Raw Analysis & Coffee Marketing
Quality assessment through to international trade, taught at the ECA office in Addis Ababa. Two classes run in parallel; pick the one your week allows.
Quality & sensory
The calibration path — from a first cupping protocol through to Q-Grader certification, with barista skills alongside it.
Export & compliance
End-to-end export operations, and the deforestation regulation that now sits across all of it.
What we published this month
What the deforestation rules ask a member to hold
Geolocation for the plot, evidence the land was not cleared, and a due-diligence statement that travels with the lot. What the association already holds, and what a member still has to bring.
Read HarvestWhere the harvest stands, area by area
Sidamo, Yirgacheffe, Guji, Jimma and Harrar do not run to one calendar. The seasonal outlook reads them separately, because a buyer asking for one of them is not asking about the others.
Read MarketReading price movement with members, not after them
Informing members of international price movement and policy change is one of the association's standing services. This is what that looks like month to month.
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