EUDR and coffee: what importers must collect
Green and roasted coffee sit squarely in scope, across long smallholder supply chains.
EUDR · Regulation (EU) 2023/1115
Coffee is one of the seven commodities covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation. Placing coffee on the EU market needs a Due Diligence Statement filed before customs clearance.
Coffee is one of the seven commodities covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation, so coffee and the products derived from it cannot enter the EU market unless it is deforestation-free after 31 December 2020, legally produced in its country of origin, and covered by a Due Diligence Statement. Annex I lists it under 0901.
Is coffee covered by the EUDR?
Yes. Coffee is on the list of seven commodities, alongside cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood. Scope extends to the derived products in Annex I, so a finished good containing coffee can be in scope too. The exact boundary is the CN code: for coffee the relevant headings are 0901. Several Annex I rows carry an ex prefix, meaning only the described subset of that heading is caught, and the Annex itself is versioned. Article 34 lets the Commission update the codes by delegated act, so check the current text rather than a cached list.
What coffee importers have to collect
The same three things every covered commodity needs: plot geolocation for the ground it came from, evidence that it was produced legally and is deforestation-free, and a Due Diligence Statement filed before customs. There is no de minimis: the obligation applies whatever the quantity, including where coffee is a minor ingredient inside a processed product.
Coffee supply chains run through large numbers of smallholders, so the hard part is collecting plot geolocation back to farm level. Start with your importers and cooperatives early.
What is not in scope for coffee
Coffee is the shortest entry in Annex I: a single heading, 0901. That has a side effect on roles. Roasting moves green coffee from 0901 11 to 0901 21, which stays inside heading 0901, so the first four digits do not change and the roaster is a trader rather than a downstream operator.
When does this apply, and what next?
From 30 December 2026 for large and medium operators and 30 June 2027 for natural persons and micro and small undertakings established by 31 December 2024. The deadlines page sets out the four separate dates the Regulation keeps and why they are not interchangeable. Start by confirming which coffee products you handle are in scope, then ask suppliers for geolocation and statement reference numbers now. EUDR for SMEs covers the reliefs for smaller importers, and the EUDR overview walks the full flow.
Sources
Collect the plots once. File every shipment after.
Bindu holds the geolocation, the legality evidence, and the audit trail in one record, and assembles the statement from it when a shipment moves.