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National Coffee Association Membership Types

Please select your member type below to get started. You may also download a Membership Dues Policy for a detailed explanation of each member type.

Once you have selected your type, please either create an NCA account or login to join. NCA memberships are open to coffee-related organizations and corporations. The NCA member benefits are available to all full-time employees. An individual online account should be created first. You will then be prompted to create or affiliate with your non-member company prior to joining.

If you have any problems with your account, contact us or call the friendly NCA staff at 212-766-4007.

Trader Brokers, Non-Importing Agents

Any business entity that sells or purchases, or causes to be sold or purchased, or is party to the sale of coffee in any form requiring further processing prior to consumer use, provided that the business entity or any of its related business entities do not roast coffee.

Join/Renew as a Trader/Broker, Non-Importing Agent Member

Trader Importers, Importing Agents

Join/Renew as a Trader/Importer, Importing Agents Member

Trader - Non U.S. Traders

Join/Renew as a Trader - Non U.S. Traders Member

By-The-Cup/Packaged Retailer

Any business entity that sells coffee or coffee based beverages in any form, (including roast, soluble, concentrates, or hot, cold or ready to drink beverages) directly to consumers, through a physical setting, (i.e., brick and mortar stores, kiosks, or mobile trucks/carts), provided that the business entity is not a coffee roaster or trader.

Dues shall be based on the number of retail locations in the United States.

Join/Renew as a By-The-Cup/Packaged Retailer Member

Ecommerce Retailer

Any business entity that sells coffee or coffee based beverages in any form, (including roast, soluble, concentrates, or hot, cold or ready to drink beverages) directly to consumers, exclusively through ecommerce (i.e., online stores or mobile apps), provided that the business entity is not a coffee roaster or trader.

Dues shall be based on the total U.S. Coffee Related Sales as reported in the business entity’s most recent fiscal year.

Join/Renew as an Ecommerce Retailer Member

grower

"Grower” shall be (i) business entities that grow coffee, provided that the business entity does not, in any significant quantity, export, import, roast or sell coffee in any form at the retail level, (ii) “grower cooperatives” that have been formed by individual growers or a group of growers for the purposes, among other things, of growing, processing, and facilitating the sale of green coffee.

Join/Renew as a Grower Member

wholesaler/ distributor

Any business entity that sells coffee or coffee based beverages in any form (including roast, soluble, concentrates, or ready to drink beverages) either as a wholesaler or distributor, provided that the entity is not a coffee trader or roaster.

Join/Renew as a Wholesaler/Distributor Member

roaster/ manufacturer

Any business entity that roast green coffee or manufacture extracts, soluble coffee, concentrates or consumer coffee beverages, such as ready to drink coffee products. entities that roast incidental amounts of coffee for sampling, testing, or research and development purposes shall not be classified as “Roasters/Manufacturers” solely on the basis of that incidental roasting.

Roasters processing over 1 million bags annually shall be classified as either (a) contract/toll roasters, or (b) non-contract/non-toll roasters.

Contract/Toll Roasters are those organizations who roast at least 65% of their overall annual volume as contract/toll work for third parties (vs. for their own or affiliated brands). as a general matter, contract/toll manufacturing is understood to be an arrangement between unrelated parties whereunder the contract/toll manufacturer is sourcing, roasting, grinding and/or packaging coffee on behalf of a third party.

Join/Renew as a Roaster/Manufacturer Member

non-profit

Non-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) IRS status or its international equivalent, and non-governmental organizations that are engaged in activities related to the coffee industry.

Join/Renew as a Non-Profit Member

association

Please contact us for details.

allied (all other businesses)

All businesses not otherwise covered in any of the membership categories above, including include, but not necessarily be limited to, mills, warehouses, packers, shipping lines, ports, banking and financial services, machinery and parts, and paper goods and supplies.

The NCA Board of Directors may also make Allied membership available to other persons, partnerships or corporations performing a special service to the coffee industry.

Join or Renew as an Allied Member

To learn more about your dues level, first find your ‘Member Type’ based upon the descriptions above, and then review the NCA Dues Schedule.

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