US EditionBrewing trouble: America’s coffee addiction meets Trump’s trade tariffs | News Channel 3-12
BRAZIL, UNITED STATES, JUL 21 – Tariffs imposed as political retribution risk raising U.S. coffee prices by up to 30% and disrupt supply chains reliant on Brazil, which supplies 30% of U.S. coffee imports.
- On July 9, 2025, President Donald Trump said he would apply a 50% tariff on all imports from Brazil, taking effect August 1.
- Amid Brazil’s Supreme Court trial of Jair Bolsonaro, President Donald Trump linked the tariff threat to those proceedings.
- With the tariff looming, some traders are diverting cargo ships en route to other countries and moving beans from warehouses in Mexico and Canada.
- Food economist David Ortega said `Americans are going to feel the impact of the tariffs in their morning brew,` while commodity coffee prices spiked and some importers amended their wholesale prices for August shipments.
- Without broader U.S. production, small coffee producers have laid off harvest workers and paused exports amid market unpredictability, underscoring that the U.S., aside from small farms in Hawaii and California, doesn’t produce coffee at scale.
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The international price of coffee has skyrocketed in the first half of the year to record levels, revealing market data. Behind this escalation, which benefits a few producers in Mexico, lies the scarcity caused by climate change and the uncertainty caused by the trade policies of Donald Trump, president of the United States.
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U.S. coffee drinkers and businesses will pay the price for Trump's Brazil tariffs
President Trump plans to levy a 50% tariff on all goods from Brazil — the source of about 30% of U.S. coffee imports. This looming tariff threat has sent shock waves through the U.S. coffee industry.
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