US coffee drinkers in for double shot of pain from tariffs

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US consumers face even steeper rises in the price of coffee and chocolate as a result of US President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on the world’s largest producers.

The levies, which will hit coffee imports from Brazil, Colombia, and Vietnam, are expected to push up prices in shops and cafés at a time when bean costs have already soared amid supply shortages.

The US…