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Americans pay more for their coffee, because prices for caffeinated raw materials are almost record levels as a result of global production in production and higher costs of imported coffee that are exposed to rates.
The most recent edition of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that that coffee prices Reden by 20.9% compared to a year ago in August and increased 3.6% monthly. That is the highest annual price profit reported in the data series since a lecture of 21.2% in July 2011, and at the top of the 20.3% lecture in July 2022 in the middle of the Covid inflation thrust.
The prices for coffee subgroups rose to the same extent, whereby the BLS reported that roasted coffee prices by 21.7% on an annual basis and 4.1% on a monthly basis in August rose, while the costs of instant coffee rose by 20.1% compared to a year ago and 4.9% compared to the previous month.
The US is highly dependent on imported coffee and lacks the capacity for large -scale domestic production, with less than 1% of Americans coffee produced in the United States. That leaves little opportunity to increase the domestic offer at a time when prices have risen in the past year due to global production challenges that are now exacerbated by Rates that affect imported coffee.
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Coffee prices have taken a hit by rates and global production challenges. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / Getty images)
The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations noted that in 2024 global coffee prices increased by 38.8% from the previous year as a result of disruptions of delivery, including bad weather in Vietnam, Indonesia and Brazil, which increases prices. Brazil and Vietnam accounts for about half of Global coffee productionAccording to the FAO.
Brazil continues to experience dry weather that it can affect this year’s coffee production, and it comes as the Trump administration has raised rates for the import of coffee. The White House imposed a flat rate of 10% in April in April in April, to which coffee was exposed, and then continued with a rate of 50% on the entry from Brazil at the end of July.
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The US imports almost all the coffee that Americans consume. (Istock / Istock)
He said: “If you look at what the coffee prices have done in recent months, they have certainly done a bit of a staircase – they have been enriched and then they are a bit crushed, and then they went up again. And it is the second where you really have a tariff effect.”
“That is inevitable if you tax On a product that simply cannot be made in the United States and for which we are what we call inelastic question, which means: I am a coffee addict, there are many coffee addicts, we are not going to reduce our consumption much if prices rise, “Lincicome explained.
“If you have that situation, it is not necessary to worry about your worldwide coffee growers whether they charge too much or whatever, they can simply pass that on to the consumer and I think that seems to be what is going on,” he added.
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President Donald Trump revealed “mutual” rates for US trading partners in April. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / Getty images)
Lincicome noted that the Trump administration was recently one executive order Which indicates that the US would be prepared to nuts for products that the president determines that they are not available in sufficient quantities in the US as part of trade agreements.
“The problem that you are entered into with general rates is that if you only apply rates without distinction, you ultimately catch a lot of products that it makes no sense to apply rates to those things. But there is a problem that you should start making exceptions and exceptions in the moment you recognize that and then people will come to Washington and they claim more,” He.
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