{"id":346939,"date":"2025-08-18T15:52:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/coffee-drinkers-of-america-unite\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:52:37","slug":"coffee-drinkers-of-america-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/coffee-drinkers-of-america-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Drinkers of America, Unite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Here\u2019re the July PPI and CPI for coffee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/coffeepix.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57655\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/coffeepix.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/coffeepix.png 849w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/coffeepix-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/coffeepix-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/coffeepix-624x412.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong> PPI for roasted coffee, n.s.a. (blue), and CPI for coffee, s.a. (tan), all in logs 2025M01=0. Source: BLS via FRED, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note that near month futures for coffee are roughly the same in July as in January. This suggests that to a first approximation, tariffs are explaining the jump in coffee prices.<\/p>\n<p>In the short run, a one percentage point increase in PPI is associated with a 0.16 ppt increase in CPI. In the long run, the one percentage point increase in PPI is associated with a 0.75 ppt increase in the CPI (pre-pandemic, 2003-2019, using error correction model).<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration implemented a 10% baseline tariff on nearly all imported coffee in April 2025, with Brazil at 50% tariff as of August 6, 2025 (30% US imports were from Brazil); India at 25% tariff, Indonesia at a 19% tariff, Vietnam: at 20% tariff, and Bolivia, Costa Rica, and Ecuador at 15%.<\/p>\n<p>I can hardly wait for coffee growers to produce in Wisconsin, to show the world we can compete in *all* dimensions!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/08\/coffee-drinkers-of-america-unite\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Here\u2019re the July PPI and CPI for coffee. Figure 1: PPI for roasted coffee, n.s.a. (blue), and CPI for coffee, s.a. (tan), all in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}