{"id":17989,"date":"2025-10-23T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17989\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:37:07","slug":"new-bill-aims-to-eliminate-tariffs-on-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17989\/","title":{"rendered":"New bill aims to eliminate tariffs on coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014\u00a0If your cup of coffee costs more than usual this morning, some U.S. House Representatives are trying to change that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have introduced a bill to remove tariffs on coffee imports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nU.S. House Representatives have introduced a bill to remove tariffs on coffee
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\nOne of the owners of Gypsy Souls Coffeehouse said tariffs have increased their cost of goods\u00a0
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\nThe coffeehouse said it had a stockpile of beans, but with the supply running out, it had to raise prices
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\nThe White House has said the president imposed tariffs to strengthen the U.S. economy and to protect American workers
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Gypsy Souls Coffeehouse is known for its sandwiches and of course, its coffee.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have people coming from all over to get our coffee,\u201d Dena Gasic, co-owner of Gypsy Souls Roasters, said.<\/p>\n

The family-owned coffeehouse has been open in St. Petersburg for seven years. Gasic does all the cooking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been cooking all my life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

While the sandwiches are homemade, their coffee is imported. According to the National Coffee Association,\u00a0more than 99% of America\u2019s<\/a> coffee is imported because there are only a few places in the country where coffee beans can grow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cColumbia, Brazil, Indonesia, we use Kenya, the Malabar \u2014 we have a lot of customers that are using that. They have their own espresso machines,\u201d Gasic said.<\/p>\n

Gasic said their coffee brokers had to increase prices because of tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we didn’t have the tariffs in place, we would have been able to buy 800 more pounds of coffee,” she said. “That’s a lot of coffee.”<\/p>\n

Because of the increases, Gasic said they aren\u2019t buying as large of a selection of beans because she said it\u2019s gotten too expensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cost of the goods is impacting our ability to do business and to stay in business,\u201d Gasic said.<\/p>\n

The coffeehouse had bought a stockpile\u00a0of beans while they could, but with the supply running out, they said they had no other choice but to raise their wholesale and retail prices.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked about it and talked about it, and then finally we said we can’t do this anymore,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Bipartisan U.S. House Representatives introduced the \u201cNo Coffee Tax Act<\/a>\u201d to remove tariffs on coffee imported from countries the U.S. has normal trade relations with.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gasic said that if that became law, they would roll back their recent increases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, our customers would pay less than they’re paying, we would pay less, hopefully, when we bought the green coffee, and then that would help all of us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Gasic is hoping those changes get brewed up.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has said that foreign trade and economic practices have created a national emergency. The White House has said the president imposed tariffs to strengthen the U.S. economy and to protect American workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014\u00a0If your cup of coffee costs more than usual this morning, some U.S. House Representatives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2031,274,558,2200,115,139,596,99,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,2032,1374,835],"class_list":["post-17989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-local-business","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-pinellas-county","tag-politics","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-tyler-oneill","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}