Wholesale Green Coffee Beans: Bulk Sourcing from Ecuador for Roasters & Importers

Wholesale Coffee Beans from Origin: What We Supply

El Dulce Origen exports green (unroasted) arabica coffee from Ecuador to roasters and green coffee importers. We are an origin exporter, not a roaster and not a domestic distributor: the coffee leaves Ecuador as green beans in export bags, and the roast, the grind and the retail pack happen at your end. That is what most buyers searching for wholesale coffee beans or bulk coffee beans actually need, because the roast profile is the single variable that defines the final cup and it belongs to the roaster.

Two lines are available. Specialty green coffee — Bourbon, Typica, Caturra and Castillo grown between 1,200 and 1,800 metres, washed or honey processed, screen 15/16 and above — for roasters who need a consistent regional coffee all year. Microlots — single estate, single variety and single harvest date, including Sidra and Typica Mejorada from farms up to and above 2,000 metres — for roasters who build limited releases. The educational side of Ecuadorian coffee, from terroir to varieties and cupping, is covered on our specialty coffee from Ecuador page; this page is about buying.

Choosing a Wholesale Coffee Supplier: Exporter, Importer or Distributor?

The search terms wholesale coffee suppliers, coffee wholesale distributors and coffee bean supplier describe three different positions in the chain, and the right one depends on your volume and your warehouse. A distributor sells roasted or green coffee from stock in your own country, in small quantities, with the import already done. A green importer buys containers at origin, clears customs and sells spot bags from a bonded or local warehouse. An origin exporter like us sells from the country of production, FOB, so the buyer handles freight and import.

Buying at origin makes sense once a roaster can take a meaningful volume and wants farm-level traceability, a say in processing and a direct relationship with the lot. Below that volume, a local importer's spot inventory is usually the better answer, and we say so rather than sell a container that sits in your warehouse for a year.

Bulk Coffee Beans: Bags, Pallets and Containers

Green coffee ships in 60 kg jute bags with inner GrainPro liners, which protect the beans against humidity and oxygen during ocean transit. Microlots can also go in 10-20 kg vacuum-sealed boxes. Commercial volume then scales from pallet to less-than-container load (LCL) and to a full container load (FCL) of up to 275 bags shipped from the Port of Guayaquil.

• Commercial minimum order: 250 kg — in green coffee, five 60 kg bags.
• Samples: 1-5 kg of green coffee for roasting and cupping in your lab, case by case, sent by express courier from Quito.
• Export packaging: quoted separately and not included in the product price.

Any capacity figure you see on this site describes what can be produced, never a minimum you must buy.

Green Coffee Specifications to Agree Before the Contract

A wholesale coffee contract is only as good as its specification. Before the first container, the following should be written down and matched against the pre-shipment sample:

• Moisture: 11.0-11.8 % for the specialty line and 10.5-11.5 % for microlots, measured before milling, to prevent mould in transit.
• Screen size: 15/16 and above, with uniformity checked so the roast develops evenly.
• Defects: no primary defects in a specialty lot; secondary defects within the agreed tolerance.
• Process: washed, natural, honey or controlled anaerobic fermentation for microlots, declared per lot.
• Harvest date and farm traceability: declared per lot.
• Cupping: scored by your own team on the pre-shipment sample. We do not claim a specific cupping score for a lot without a current Q-grader certificate for that lot.

The meaning of each of these parameters, and why a lot can cup well and still roast badly, is explained in our guide what is specialty coffee.

How Wholesale Coffee Prices Are Built

Commodity coffee trades on the New York "C" arabica contract. Specialty and microlot contracts are quoted as that exchange reference plus a quality differential fixed at the time of the quotation, which reflects variety, process, cup quality and the premium paid to the producer. Fixing the differential protects the roaster from renegotiation halfway through a contract; the exchange component still moves until the price is fixed.

We do not publish wholesale coffee prices. The exchange moves daily, and lot, volume, packaging and destination all change the quotation.

Import Duties and Tariffs on Coffee (as of September 2026)

Import duties are set by the destination country, not by the exporter, and in some markets they have changed more than once since 2025. Before you compare a landed cost, check the rate that applies on the shipment date in your own customs tariff — for green coffee, heading 0901.11 in most nomenclatures — or with your customs broker. We do not quote duties, and a tariff figure copied from an article can be out of date by the time the container arrives.

EUDR: What European Coffee Buyers Need from Origin

Coffee is one of the seven commodities covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), Regulation (EU) 2023/1115. As amended by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650, its core obligations apply from 30 December 2026, and from 30 June 2027 for micro and small operators established as such by 31 December 2024. The due diligence statement is submitted by the operator that first places the coffee on the EU market; what that operator needs from origin is the geolocation of every production plot, proof of legal production and a traceable chain from plot to bag. Ecuador is not on the Commission's list of low-risk or high-risk countries (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1093), so it falls in the standard-risk category. We map the plot polygons of our allied farms and send the data with the export documents. The operator's side is explained in our EUDR compliance guide for coffee importers.

Logistics: FOB Guayaquil and FOB Quito

We sell FOB Guayaquil for sea freight and FOB Quito (Tababela) for air shipments, which are mainly used for samples and nano-lots. Freight, insurance and inland movement at destination are on the buyer's account, so you keep your own forwarder and port. Each shipment travels with phytosanitary, customs and traceability documents.

On arrival, green coffee should rest in a cool, dry warehouse in its liners until roasting. Stored in GrainPro at stable temperature, green coffee keeps its quality for around 12 months; left in plain jute in a humid warehouse, it fades in weeks. Our guide on buying specialty coffee online covers sample handling and arrival checks in detail.

Working with a Roaster: From Sample to Repeat Container

The usual path is short. You tell us the variety, process and volume you want and your destination port. We send a green sample for test roasting and cupping. If it matches, the specification, volume, differential and shipping window are fixed in the contract, and the lot ships with its documents. Repeat contracts can be planned around the Ecuadorian harvest so that the same farms and processes supply the same roast program each year. The roaster's side of this process is covered step by step in our guide to green coffee sourcing for roasters. Processing choices and their effect on the cup are explained in our guide to coffee post-harvest processing.

Technical Sheet and Contact

The technical sheet for our specialty green coffee — varieties, altitude, process, moisture, screen size and packaging — is on the specialty green coffee product page; microlots have their own microlot sheet.