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Trade ref. 26-KC-0447

Trade
350 MT Arabica coffee, Colombia — approx. 5,000 bags. Bought FOB Cartagena at KC Z26 +18c/lb, sold CIF Antwerp at KC Z26 +27c/lb, Cartagena → Antwerp, hedged short 21 ICE KC Z26 contracts, shipment Oct–Nov 2026.
Rules
Four systems govern it: ECF contract terms, ICE Futures U.S. rules, the EUDR, and ICC Incoterms® 2020 — which applies because the trade is a commercial sale transferring ownership and risk.
Change
Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 amends the EUDR — applies 30 December 2026.
Reach
7 of 24 live contracts matched · 3 require review.
Owner
Head of Compliance (2) · Trade Ops (1).

One trade. Every obligation connected.

  1. Trade
  2. Rules
  3. Obligations
  4. Risks
  5. Action

Trade

Trade ref.
26-KC-0447
Commodity
Arabica coffee · Colombia
Quantity
350 MT · 5,000 × 70 kg bags
Purchase
FOB Cartagena · KC Z26 +18 c/lb
Sale
CIF Antwerp · KC Z26 +27 c/lb
Route
Cartagena → Antwerp
Shipment
October–November 2026
Buyer
Coffee roaster · Belgium
Seller
Origin exporter · Colombia
Hedge
ICE Coffee “C” Dec-26 · short 21 lots
Contract framework
ECF coffee terms · Incoterms® 2020
Dispute resolution
Coffee-trade arbitration · venue and governing law per contract

Commercial contract

European Coffee Federation · European Contract for Coffee

The physical contract creates obligations that continue long after the trade is booked.

Quantity and weight

Contract quantity:
350 MT

ECF terms permit a 3% quantity tolerance only where the difference results from circumstances beyond the seller's control. Shipped weight must be independently evidenced and stated on the bill of lading.

Quality and sampling

Pending: destination event

Where ECF terms apply, arbitration samples must generally be drawn and sealed by an independent qualified body within 21 calendar days of final discharge.

Quality claim window

Not yet open

Under the ECF contract, quality claims generally must be formulated within 21 calendar days of final discharge; other claims generally within 45 days.

Arbitration

Mapped

Unresolved disputes are referred to coffee-trade arbitration at the place specified in the contract. The ECF jurisdiction provisions link interpretation of the contract to the law of the country in which arbitration is agreed to take place.

Contract interaction detected

Review required

The purchase says FOB Cartagena · Incoterms® 2020.

The ECF's European Contract for Coffee contains its own coffee-trade treatment of FOB and expressly notes that it differs from ordinary FOB practice unless effective FOB conditions are specified.

Confirm contractual precedence between the ECF terms and Incoterms® 2020.

Owner: Trade Ops / Legal

Delivery and risk

ICC Incoterms® 2020 · FOB Cartagena → CIF Antwerp

The same cargo changes commercial responsibility twice.

Purchase: FOB Cartagena

Origin exporter
  • clears the coffee for export
  • delivers it on board the nominated vessel at Cartagena
  • bears risk until the coffee is on board
Trader
  • takes risk once the coffee is on board
  • arranges and pays the main carriage from Cartagena

Sale: CIF Antwerp

Trader
  • delivers the coffee for Incoterms purposes when it is on board at origin
  • contracts and pays for carriage to Antwerp
  • procures the required cargo insurance for the buyer
Buyer
  • bears cargo risk after shipment
  • normally handles import clearance

Important distinction

Cost and risk do not transfer at Antwerp.

Under CIF, the trader pays freight and insurance to Antwerp, but risk normally transfers to the buyer when the coffee is placed on board the vessel at origin.

Insurance evidence
Required

CIF Incoterms® 2020 normally requires the seller to procure at least Institute Cargo Clauses (C) or equivalent cover for 110% of the contract price, unless the parties agree otherwise.

Owner: Trade Ops

Exchange rules

ICE Futures U.S. · Coffee “C”

Physical exposure:
350 MT
Hedge:
short 21 KC Z26 lots
ICE contract size:
37,500 lb per lot
21 lots =
787,500 lb ≈ 357.2 MT

Hedge coverage

102.1%

Approx. 7.2 MT over-hedged against nominal physical quantity.

Contract eligibility

Mapped

Colombian washed Arabica is an eligible Coffee “C” growth and December is an Exchange delivery month.

Delivery exposure

Monitor

A short position carried into the delivery process can generate an obligation to tender Exchange-deliverable coffee. ICE permits delivery notices to begin seven business days before the first business day of the delivery month.

Physical cargo ≠ Exchange delivery

This Colombian cargo is being sold commercially to a Belgian roaster at a negotiated differential.

That does not make it automatically deliverable against the KC hedge.

Exchange delivery requires Coffee “C” that meets ICE grading, certification, storage and warehouse requirements. Antwerp is an ICE delivery point, but Exchange coffee there is subject to specific certification and customs-status requirements.

Commercial intent:
price hedge

Close, fix or roll the KC position according to hedge policy rather than unintentionally entering the Exchange delivery process.

Owner: Trading / Risk

Public regulation

EU Deforestation Regulation · Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended

Coffee is a commodity covered by EUDR.

For most large and medium operators, the main obligations apply from:
30 December 2026
For qualifying micro and small operators established by 31 December 2024:
30 June 2027

The shipment date alone does not determine whether the EUDR regulation applies.

The decisive event is customs release

Estimated arrival Antwerp:
November 2026
Customs release date:
Not yet known

For imported products, EUDR treats the product as entering the Union market when it is released for free circulation. Customs warehousing, transit and similar procedures do not themselves constitute placing the coffee on the Union market.

If released before 30 December 2026
Main EUDR obligations are not yet applicable to this coffee under the general application timetable.
If released on or after 30 December 2026
EUDR applies, assuming the responsible operator is not within the deferred micro/small category.

Where applicable, the operator must establish evidence including:

  • country and place of production
  • geolocation of the production plots
  • production date or production period
  • supplier and customer information
  • evidence that the coffee is deforestation-free
  • evidence of compliance with relevant legislation in the country of production
  • completed due diligence and the required due diligence statement before placing the coffee on the EU market

Plot evidence

4,400 bags:
evidence complete
600 bags · 42 MT:
plot evidence outstanding

Smallholder cooperative records have not yet been reconciled to the shipment.

Operator status

Requires determination

The sale is CIF Antwerp. Incoterms allocate freight, insurance and import responsibilities, but they do not by themselves determine the EUDR operator.

Agrinodus checks the customs declaration and actual role of the parties rather than assuming that the CIF seller is the importer.

Owner: Sustainability / Compliance

One trade. Multiple governing bodies.

Each regulatory framework is maintained by a different body, on their terms. None of them are currently connected to your trades.

Trade 350 MT coffee · Colombia → Antwerp

ECF contract terms
European Coffee FederationQuality, weights, documents, claims and arbitration.Applies because: incorporated into the physical contract. Attaches to Contract.
EUDR
European UnionTraceability, plot evidence, due diligence and effective dates.Applies because: coffee enters the EU market. Attaches to Commodity and Route.
ICE Coffee “C”
ICE Futures U.S.Positions, notices, delivery and contract expiry.Applies because: the trade is hedged with KC futures. Attaches to Hedge.
Incoterms® 2020
ICCDelivery, risk transfer, freight, insurance and customs responsibilities.Applies because: purchase is FOB Cartagena and sale is CIF Antwerp. Attaches to Delivery.

mapped

When regulation changes.

An email tells you a rule changed. It does not tell you whether it affects your trade. Deciding which live contracts it applies to is still done by hand.

Agrinodus breaks it down into:

  • what changed (the regulation, and the obligation it affects)
  • when it takes effect (effective date, transition provisions, version now in force)
  • which trades (matched live contracts, positions, shipments)
  • why each is affected (the trade facts that triggered applicability)
  • what is required (evidence, filing, amendment and counterparty notice)
  • who reviews it (internal owner, uncertainties escalate to legal)

Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 applied from 30 December 2024 as adopted, then from 30 December 2025 under Regulation (EU) 2024/3234. Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 moves it again, to 30 December 2026. 7 of 24 live contracts matched; 3 require review.

The regulation, the amending instrument and the dates are real and cited. The contracts and counts are constructed.

The trade and the regulation live in different systems.

Systems of record

CTRM / ERP
Positions, contracts, shipments, and exposures.
Traceability
Suppliers, plots, origin evidence.

Your records

Agrinodus
Connects the governing regulation back to the live physical trade.

Their regulation

Systems that govern your trade

Commercial contract & industry rules
ECF contract terms, quality, weights, documents, claims and arbitration
Trade terms & delivery rules
ICC Incoterms® 2020, risk transfer, freight, insurance and customs responsibilities
Exchange & derivatives rules
ICE Futures U.S., Coffee “C” contract rules, positions, notices, expiry and delivery
Public regulation & sustainability
EU EUDR, traceability, plot evidence, due diligence, filings and effective dates
Customs & import regulation
EU and Belgian customs, tariff classification, origin, free-circulation and import documentation
Origin-country regulation
Colombian authorities and Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, exporter registration, quality controls and export formalities
Financial & reporting regulation
CFTC, broker and clearing requirements, position reporting, margin and applicable derivatives controls

What Agrinodus does.

Applicability
Which regulation governs this trade, and why.
Obligations
What each applicable regulation requires.
Rule versioning
Which version applied, on which date.
Evidence
Held, missing, and from whom.
Deadlines
What is due, and when.
Risk flags
Exceptions, gaps and conflicts.
Action and escalation
Owned by a person. Uncertainty goes to legal.
Audit trail
Conclusion, trade fact, rule, source, version, reasoning.

How it works.

Agrinodus operates as an intelligence and control layer above the CTRM / ERP system, connecting trades to governing regulation and continuously evaluating the operations.

  1. 01

    Ingest the trade

    Agrinodus structures contracts, CTRM exports and supporting documents into a unified representation of each trade, position and shipment.

  2. 02

    Evaluate applicable controls

    The platform maps each trade against the contractual, exchange and regulatory rules in scope. Tracking applicability, obligations, evidence, deadlines and unresolved decisions.

  3. 03

    Monitor continuously

    As trade facts or governing rules change, Agrinodus recalculates the affected controls, identifies exposed trades and routes exceptions to the appropriate owner.

Engagement begins with a mutual NDA. Scope and sharing stay in your control.

Built from inside the markets.

We have worked on trading desks across fertilizers and soft commodities. Shipping, documents, delays, counterparty risk, regulation changes are not new to us.

The connection between the trade and the regulations was always made by hand. Agrinodus is that connection, made proactive.

Private pilot.

One historical contract. Agrinodus maps it against the rules in scope and show you what applies, what is missing, and what changes if the rule moves.

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