The coffee market sure has changed over the years. This is interesting:

China will export coffee directly to the United States in April under a deal signed between the ECUM Coffee Group and Yunnan Hogood Co Ltd.

In a statement on Saturday, Hogood said that it will export 240 tons of coffee beans monthly to Atlantic (USA) Inc, a member of Denmark-based ECUM Coffee Group.

Previously, Chinese coffee reached foreign consumers via international coffee suppliers such as Nescafe and Starbucks.

My only question is when there will be such a plentiful supply of cheap, ordinary coffee in China that I can stop begging my sister-in-law to schlep huge tubs of Costco coffee to me on her China trips. (Obviously my standards are not too high — Yunnan coffee might be acceptable if the price is right.)