Guides
Reference, not marketing.
Seven guides covering the questions a green coffee buyer actually has to answer before a first Ethiopian shipment: how the buying process runs, how the grade is produced, when the crop moves, which documents are required, what an Incoterms rule does and does not include, how payment is structured, and what fits in a container.
- Guides
- 7
- Origin covered
- Amaro, Ethiopia
- Harvest
- September – December
- Standard
- Sources named, gaps stated
The guides
- 01
Buying green coffee, step by step.
The full sequence of buying green coffee from origin: enquiry, sample, specification, quotation, contract, payment terms, shipment and delivery, what each stage settles, and where it goes wrong when skipped.
- 02
Ethiopian coffee grading, explained.
How Ethiopian green coffee is graded: what Grade 1 to Grade 9 measures, who issues the grade, how screen size, moisture and defect count fit together, and why a grade is not a cup score.
- 03
The Ethiopian harvest and shipping calendar.
When Ethiopian coffee is harvested, how long post-harvest processing, milling, grading and export documentation take, why shipments move overland to Djibouti, and how to plan a contract against the crop year.
- 04
The importer's documentation checklist.
Every document a green coffee import from Ethiopia typically requires: contract, commercial set, certificate of origin, ICO certificate, phytosanitary certificate, export grading certificate, inspection reports and the EU deforestation due diligence statement.
- 05
Incoterms 2020 for green coffee buyers.
The eleven Incoterms 2020 rules applied to green coffee: which are container-appropriate, where risk transfers, who insures under CIF and CIP, what changed in 2020, and why the named place matters for landlocked origins.
- 06
Payment terms and trade finance for green coffee.
The payment terms used in green coffee trade (advance payment, letters of credit, documentary collections and open account) what each allocates, how a letter of credit works, and why payment terms are set separately from the Incoterms rule.
- 07
Container loading and shipping specifications for green coffee.
How green coffee is packed and shipped: bag types and weights, why coffee ships in 20-foot rather than 40-foot containers, the condensation problem inside a steel box, container liners and desiccants, and what to specify in the contract.
How these are written.
- General trade information is explained
- Grading structures, Incoterms rules and documentation sets are public reference material. They are set out here in full, with the reasoning, rather than summarised into a sales point.
- Figures that move are not frozen
- Defect allowances, tariff rates and regulatory application dates are revised. Where a figure depends on a schedule or a jurisdiction, the guide says so and names where the authoritative version lives, instead of quoting a number that will quietly go stale.
- Zoebar's own specifications follow the trust rule
- Grade, screen size, cupping band, moisture, packing, lead times and Incoterms are confirmed per lot and published once confirmed. A guide is not a route around that rule.
- Every claim about origin comes from one record
- Origin, altitude, harvest window and processing method are read from a single canonical source, so Amaro is described identically on every page of this site.