Abstract
In the period 1897-1930, crops in the state of São Paulo accounted for approximately two thirds of the coffee bags exported by Brazil, beans that were traded in the port of Santos. But which were the companies responsible for exporting Brazilian coffee in the port of São Paulo? The historiography has agreed to point out the dominance of foreign companies over the commercialization of coffee in the aforementioned period. Based on the archives of Associação Comercial de Santos and editions of Wileman's Brazilian Review, the article demonstrates that English and German houses led exports in Santos until 1913 but, with the beginning of the World War I in 1914 and in the 1920s, there were national/Brazilian houses that led exports and began to compete with foreign firms, and these firms became US firms.
Keywords
Export houses; Coffee; Santos