{"id":19539,"date":"2025-09-13T06:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/19539\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:55:13","slug":"us-coffee-prices-surge-as-tariffs-take-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/19539\/","title":{"rendered":"US coffee prices surge as tariffs take effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee prices in the US have surged more than 20% in the last year, as duties on some of the world\u2019s biggest producers take effect. <\/p>\n<p>While American consumers have in general been shielded from the impact of tariffs, coffee drinkers are feeling the pinch as steep duties on imports from Brazil and Vietnam force sellers to pass on some of the cost. <\/p>\n<p>The levies compound the pain for US coffee retailers, who already faced higher costs after droughts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/commodities\/brazils-coffee-farmers-turn-costly-irrigation-quench-global-demand-brew-2025-03-31\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">dented global production<\/a>. One New York City cafe owner who recently had to hike the price of a cup of drip coffee by 50% said: \u201cWe have held off on making this change for as long as possible, but\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/11\/business\/coffee-prices-tariffs.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">this adjustment is necessary<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A chart showing the average price of a pound of coffee in the US.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"772\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d39bb6c5843dcea3e551ab4cde6aa894f6c2e03f-1599x1545.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coffee prices in the US have surged more than 20% in the last year, as duties on some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-19539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}