Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (FCOJ 65-66 °Brix)

65-66 °Brix FCOJ in frozen drums at -18 °C or bulk from processor terminals, bought on ratio, acidity and pulp

Frozen concentrated orange juice is orange juice with most of its water removed by evaporation, standardised to about 65 °Brix - roughly seven parts single-strength juice to one part concentrate - and frozen for storage and shipment. Buyers specify five things on the certificate of analysis: the acid-corrected Brix (typically 65-66 °Brix), the Brix/acid ratio (commercial bands such as 11-14 or 17-20, which decide how sweet the reconstituted juice tastes), the titratable acidity as citric acid, the pulp content by volume and the defects and colour score. Not-from-concentrate juice (NFC) is the other product line: pasteurised single-strength juice that is never evaporated, kept chilled at about -1 °C in bulk, and bought by packers selling a premium chilled juice; FCOJ is the reconstitution base for ambient and chilled juice and nectar and for beverage manufacturers. Reconstituted orange juice sold in the EU must reach at least 11.2 °Brix under Directive 2012/12/EU. UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations put frozen orange juice (HS 2009.11) at USD 2.60 billion and about 700,000 MT across reporters and other orange juice above 20 °Brix (HS 2009.19) at USD 1.95 billion and 517,000 MT: Brazil declared USD 1.15 billion and about 300,200 MT under 2009.11 plus USD 1.02 billion and 236,228 MT under 2009.19, Mexico USD 463 million and 82,179 MT, the USA USD 137 million and about 64,000 MT, the Netherlands USD 131 million and USD 454 million (the EU terminal trade), Costa Rica USD 11 million under 2009.11 and USD 44 million under 2009.19, and Belize USD 15 million and about 2,300 MT.

Two logistics chains carry the trade. The Brazilian processors - Citrosuco, Cutrale and Louis Dreyfus Company - run dedicated juice terminals at Santos and specialised juice tankers holding FCOJ at about -10 °C to their own terminals in Ghent, Antwerp and Rotterdam, where bulk juice is sold on or drummed; the importer buys from that terminal stock or by the full cargo. Everyone else buys frozen drums: FCOJ in a polyethylene bag inside a 200-220 litre steel drum, about 270-275 kg net, held at -18 °C from the plant freezer through a 20-ft reefer container to the buyer's cold store. The price reference is the ICE Futures U.S. FCOJ-A contract (15,000 lb of orange solids, US Grade A, not less than 62.5 °Brix, quoted in cents per pound), and physical offers are priced per tonne of concentrate or per pound solids as a differential to it; CBIL quotes the reference only with its source and date. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers FCOJ from Brazilian, Mexican, US, Costa Rican and Belizean processors on FCA, FOB, CFR and CIF terms against the processor's certificate of analysis, a phytosanitary or health certificate as the destination requires, a certificate of origin, a halal certificate from the destination's accepted certifier, pesticide residue results against EU or US maximum residue levels, and authenticity checks to the AIJN Code of Practice, with SGF/IRMA certification where the buyer's system requires it. The concentrate is non-alcoholic juice for beverages and food, and its ethanol content is reported on the COA within the limit on the halal certificate. Send the Brix, ratio, acidity, pulp, packing, volume and discharge port, and the enquiry is screened and worked against it.

Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.