At 3:50 a.m. on Nov. 8, a cargo plane from Hong Kong, China, loaded with packages from cross-border e-commerce platforms such as AliExpress and SHEIN, landed at an airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In a bonded warehouse at the airport, Denise Capitol, operations manager of Anjun Express in Brazil, a cross-border e-commerce logistics company, was busy arranging the reception of …

Brazil exported more than 39.24 million 60-kg bags of coffee last year, on par with those in 2022, according to the the Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council. Of these, 1.48 million bags were exported to China, a significant 278.6 percent increase over 2022, making China the 6th largest export destination for Brazilian coffee. “In 2017, Brazil’s coffee exports to China were …