Kenya Coffee Export & China Zero-Tariff Kit

Before you commit a coffee lot

Can your records and costs survive a China or EU buyer? Start with that question before committing coffee, paying an intermediary or arranging freight. China's tariff change creates a possible route, not a proven route for your shipment. This kit does not establish that any Kenyan coffee has cleared China under the zero-tariff arrangement. No customs proof was available in the research file.

Use the guide and workbook together. Save an untouched master, create a dated working copy and name the person responsible for each evidence gap. Yellow cells are inputs; green cells are calculations. A calculated result that reads needs input is a request for evidence, not a zero-cost business. Enter zero only where you can explain why an item genuinely costs nothing or does not apply.

The intended users are licensed exporters, producer agents, cooperative managers and unions, estates, millers and roasters evaluating an export order. Their responsibilities differ. A producer supplying an established exporter should record the producer's own delivery obligation and deductions. An organisation proposing to sell overseas must first establish its current authority and responsibilities. Neither buying this kit nor completing its registers supplies a licence, registration, buyer introduction, due-diligence statement or export clearance.

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A fictional calculation

In this fictional illustrative AA-lot example, 100 kg offered at KSh 1,000 per kg produces KSh 100,000 gross, less KSh 5,000 deductions and KSh 10,000 seller-paid comparison costs, giving KSh 85,000 net or KSh 850 per kg at the agreed comparison point. These numbers are invented solely to demonstrate the method; they are not a Kenyan coffee price, a trade quote or evidence that a buyer exists.