{"id":18455,"date":"2025-07-18T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18455\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:17:13","slug":"coffee-prices-set-to-spike-after-brazil-tariff-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18455\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Prices Set to Spike After Brazil Tariff Shake-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re a coffee<\/a>-lover waiting for prices to drop back down after poor harvests and spiking prices, you might be waiting a while. With the U.S. levying a 50% tariff on Brazil, coffee prices could go up even more, making what used to be a staple grocery item unaffordable. The United States imported 1.6 million metric tons of unroasted and roasted coffee in 2024, according to the Agriculture Department, and it remains to be seen what will happen to producers overseas when the tariffs take effect. \u201cWe\u2019re going to see a reshape in the coffee flow in the world,\u201d Guilherme Morya, a coffee analyst for Rabobank based in S\u00e3o Paulo, told The New York Times<\/a>. \u201cEspecially Brazil to other regions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While there is a domestic coffee industry based in Hawaii, it could not replace the coffee imported from South America. \u201cWe can\u2019t grow enough coffee,\u201d said Shawn Steiman, the owner of Coffea Consulting in Honolulu. \u201cThe Hawaiian coffee market isn\u2019t tied to the global industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brazil is the world\u2019s top coffee producer and provides 30% of the coffee imported into the U.S. \u201cIt will harm us, coffee exporters, in terms of jobs, income and costs. And it will hurt the American industry and the end consumer, who will end up paying more,\u201d Marcos Matos, executive director of Cecaf\u00e9, Brazil\u2019s coffee exporters council, told The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Brazil managed to avoid the harshest tariffs when President Trump first announced them in April. \u201cWe had been left out, so many people were saying that Brazil would end up benefiting from this,\u201d Marcos Jank, a professor of global agribusiness at Insper, a business school in S\u00e3o Paulo, told AP. \u201cBut with this 50% tariff hike, we now face one of the highest tariffs the U.S. is applying. We moved into a losing position.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to the Financial Times, arabica coffee prices jumped by 3.5% the day after President Trump\u2019s announcement. The situation is more complicated because many European countries import Brazilian coffee beans and export their own products to the U.S. \u201cThe problem is not to have tariffs between America and Europe. The problem is to have tariffs between US and Brazil, US and Vietnam, US and all the countries where coffee is produced,\u201d said Giuseppe Lavazza, chair of Lavazza Group<\/a>. \u201cThe final outcome will be a rise in the cost of coffee in the US. So the US market becomes more expensive for consumers.\u201d6254a4d1642c605c54bf1cab17d50f1e<\/p>\n

Customers are already expressing alarm about possible price hikes on social media, with coffee-lovers sharing tips for the cheapest brew. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy how bad it\u2019s getting. $30 for a lb of local roast. $10 for 9 oz of folgers, nearly $20 for 16. I love coffee. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m gonna do,\u201d one Redditor said<\/a>. \u201cCostco online is the way to go. They had their Kirkland brand medium roast Mexican earlier this year for $18\/2 lb bag, but I\u2019ve also liked ruta Maya and parisi. Both are less than $10\/lb when you get a 5 lb bag,\u201d another recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re a coffee-lover waiting for prices to drop back down after poor harvests and spiking prices, you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,17112,101],"class_list":["post-18455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-coffee","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}