Turns out that putting a 50% tariff on the biggest coffee producer in the world (to try to interfere with Bolsonaro's trial) raises the price of coffee, who would've thunk
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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Price of the coffee is the smallest part of that cup of coffee though, probably less than a dollar. The vast majority of it is everything else from facilities to work and leeches cutting their profits
Yes but every middleman will add as much as possible to profit and blame it on the tariffs.
"Preemptive tariff compensation".
Yeah, just waiting for the record profits of the coffee importers and processing plants.
They’re putting huge tariffs on Switzerland too. Which makes the grinders and other shit Starbucks uses to make coffee in its shops.
However, I’m pretty sure roasted beans and ground coffee at the grocery store is just price fixed to the cost of a cup at the megacorp coffee shops at this point.
Fuck this place. And fuck it’s coffee industry.
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Not sure about US prices, but coffee also got more expensive in general because of bad harvests. Seems to be climate change related. Which Trump is doing everything to accelerate.
Didn’t know that! Yes even the cheap coffee has gone up by a few dollars. To the point where I buy whatever is on sale.
Taco is bringing to Americans how it felt to live under Soviet government.
This just shows how pernicious Democrat influence really is! Despite not having a sitting president, and carrying a majority, Biden's insipid influence STILL has the price of coffee higher than it should have been.
Republicans are considering various solutions, varying from bombing coffee-producing nations to calling it "fake news", or just saying "Coffee? You guys still drink that stuff?"
Trump supporters should drink covfife instead.
Covfefe
I tried it. Covfife is better! New and improved! Now with 15% more best!
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What about eggs though? What about the price of eggs? Eggs are very important. Some people can't live without eggs! Some people apparently only eat eggs.
Surely that's worth a little fascism, as a treat?
Eggs are more expensive but that's good actually, it was always good, it's good when eggs are expensive, it's good actually.
See if eggs are cheap then the migrants we pay pennies to harvest them might be able to afford to eat! And that would be bad right you don't want BROWN people eating the eggs they harvest for YOU do you???
My favorite part of the egg saga is the recent executive order - where trump wants to pressure California to reduce regulations on eggs. Despite the fact that, a large part of the spikes in egg prices and availability were directly influences by massive cullings caused by poorly regulated and unhealthy environments.
It’s been interesting seeing a few rural communities rediscover the practice of farming their own eggs to sell to neighbors. Not even something that needs an enormous farming operation.
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My wife is going to shit kittens if coffee prices spike, only drug she does.
Hate all this, prepared to suffer. These MAGA dipshits will have to feel real pain, for some time. The Great Depression ushered in 60-years of liberal legislators. And just like fascism and tariffs, we gotta learn again now that our grandparents are dead.
My girl saw where the harvest wasn't great and we were anticipating tariffs. We stocked up on coffee late last year/early this year.
The useless giant ass gun safe that came with our house is full of vacuum packed coffee.
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Yaupon Holly is a native North American plant that contains caffeine. Was traditionally used by Indians as a tea or coffee. Also used during the civil war as a substitute.
I have found it around old homeplace ruins in the deep south. It is also a common landscaping plant. Need to plant some around the house.
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Glad I don't drink coffee. My heart goes out to those who do and did not bring this upon themselves.
Have you heard of this drink called tea? It's isn't grown in the US either.
You do know that not everyone is looking for a caffeine fix and there are people out there who do not drink coffee or tea, right?
Tea’s okay, but it doesn’t create that warm, lovey feeling I get from coffee. It just doesn’t satisfy the way coffee does. Probably because tea has lower caffeine content?
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Americans don't drink as much of tea as Europeans. It annoys me, because I can't for example buy any black tea at my Costco and have to go to a different store, but they have entire aisle of nothing but coffee.
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Isn't this because coffee harvests fell short due to drought caused by global warming?
Also because of the tariff threat on Brazil. You know, the country responsible for a bit over 1/3 of the coffee that USA imports
I'm surprised that it's not yet a common occurrence that when a seller learns that the buyer of goods is american, he simply marks the price up by 50% because of fuck you, thats why
There is a semi-popular opinion here in Canada that we should also be adding an export tax to goods the US has no other place to source except from Canada. The US absolutely has to buy Canadian softwood lumber for Home construction. How about a 10% export tax, have fun building expensive houses.
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And floods. Read somewhere entire coffee fields were damaged or uprooted by heavy rains.
Yeah, climate change. More rains, more shifts is temperature, more drought as well.
Its going to get A LOT worse.
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"Someone needs to tell Trump the economy isn't just 14 years old"
Would be a great bumper sticker
Eyoooooo!
Xheets like this should not have the date cut off.
Sure, prices are probably still rising across the board for Americans, but I myself complained about the same thing (coffee almost double) months ago. Maybe even still in 2024.
They shouldn't be posted here at all, since they aren't memes, right?
What is a meme? How do you define 'meme'? If you're talking about what you can repost, what you can shitpost, what you can share and upvote, then 'meme' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
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Why's it feel like a bunch of Trump supporters are about to dress up in sombreros and start tossing coffee beans in the ocean
Tarif make thing cost more?
Hmmm, what happened in the past six months or so that could explain this.... HMMMMMM
I live in Ireland and the laptop I bought for €1000 over a year ago currently costs €1600. Prices & gouging going up everywhere.
Trump's 50% Brazil coffee tariff expected to rejig trade, send more beans to China
A 50% tariff on some Brazilian products, including coffee, will begin on August 6
It's actually not in force for a few more days. I would also assume that insofar as is possible, importers will import stock ahead of the deadline, so it'll probably delay impact.
Why not just bulk up on stock and then raise prices without necessarily needing to to maximize profits but blaming the tariffs as of day one? I don't see why this wouldn't happen
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..the only way this could possibly be funny is if....fuck...
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