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US consumers face even coffee prices and chocolate prices as a result of new producers in US Donald Trump.

Levies, hitting coffee imports from Brazil, Colombia, and Vietnam, expected to push prices in stores and bean costs with supply shortages.

The US imports most of its coffee from Colombia and Brazil, the largest producer of world high-quality arabica coffee beans, whose tools are subject to new steps. Modify 46 percent of Vietnam’s goods also have an effect – the main producer of South-East Asia commonly used in the world’s coffee.

“In the end, one is the greatest import of the world’s coffee, the ultimate country of coffee coffee. So consumers suffer,” said Kona Haque, President of Trader Trader Ed & F Man.

Haque said the TARIFF Should “push the cost of green coffee to roasters, which” not men “pass to consumers.” The chocolate is not like the automotive, “he said.”

Coffee prices have already been recorded on highs in the present months due to poor weather conditions in yood grown regions including Brazil. Meanwhile, cocoa prices near three last year Due to severe weather and disease striking yield, and is expected to jump to the debt of higher tariffs from Ivory Coast and Ecuador. Ivory Coast, the largest coca producer of the world, hit the levies of 21 percent.

Dirk Van de Poste, the main executive of Mondelēz said in February that the manufacturer of Oreo Cookies and Tolblerone navigates inflation “Uncaught attraction of the Cocoa cost”.

Starbucks Chief Executive Brian Niccol during a Cancings of January Call “Higher Price of a forced consumer can affect consumer values ​​that may have final income and earnings”.

Starbucks sida price falls almost 3 percent of pre-market trading on Thursday. Hershey’s stock fell to 0.6 percent, and Monelez’s parts are widespread flat.

The US only makes a small part of one’s own coffee and cocoa, with Hawaii main household tree in the two.

Lucrezia Cogliati, Commodities Analyst and BMI said: “We believe that the recent announcement of US reciprocal tariffs will raise domestic coffee prices as the United States relies almost entirely on coffee import, producing around 0.2 per cent of the coffee it consumes.”

He added that “as the US coffee is important, we believe that additional tariffs will not be developed at higher consumer prices, rather than higher consumer prices, rather translate to more important demands”.