In terms of trade, coffee is second only to oil in dollars traded. It is grown in more than 50 countries world wide with about 30 of those countries producing more than 5,000,000 tons of coffee each year. For many of these countries their economic success pivots on the success of their coffee crops.
Brazil is by far the largest supplier of coffee today.
The green coffee beans come in to our country through New York, New Orleans and San Francisco and from there are shipped to coffee roasters around the 'States. Hawaii is the only place in the USA where coffee is grown. All coffee is grown between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Although there are more than 60 varieties of coffee that grow in the world, only two are commercially cultivated. These are Arabica and Robusta.