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US Consumers Brace for Higher Tea Prices
Few Americans can assess the immense impact of tariffs on every Chinese import, but they will easily notice the difference between a $6 box of 100 teabags and one that sells for $7.50. Read more
Starbucks Secures $1 Billion Bond
Starbucks borrowed $1 billion on behalf of ethical and sustainable coffee growers. The third and largest in a series of bonds attracted investors favorably impressed with returns from smaller offerings in 2016 and 2017. Read more
Rothfos and InterAmerican Open New HQ
A new headquarters to house InterAmerican Coffee and Rothfos Corporation will open this summer in Hoboken, New Jersey. Read more
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Oversupply Drives Coffee Prices Even Lower
Projections for a good harvest, despite 2019 being an “off harvest” year, sent coffee prices to 10-year lows. The monthly average compiled by the International Coffee Organization (ICO) fell to 94 cents per pound in April. Read more
Tariff Troubles
China ships very little coffee to the US but it is America’s largest supplier of green tea. The World’s Top Exports website, using data compiled from the US Department of Agriculture, lists China as the world’s top tea exporting nation. Read more
Q & A: David Neumann of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe
The managing partner of the David M. Neumann Kaffee Gruppe talks about coffee pricing, climate change, global trade and consolidation across the coffee industry. Read more
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Thai Specialty Winners Top $400 Pound
Results of this year’s Thai Specialty Coffee Awards, a countrywide coffee competition, rivaled well known and marketed global coffee competitions and auctions with a winning bid of $418.48 per pound. Read more
Q&A David Hogg / Araku Coffee Project
David Hogg, chief agriculture advisor at the Naandi Foundation in India, talks about the Araku Coffe Project, production, and sustainability. Read more
Starbucks Anchors $400 Million Investment Fund
Starbucks says it will commit $100 million to Valor Equity Partners, which has established Valor Siren Ventures to explore new ideas and retail technologies “relevant to customers, inspiring to partners, and meaningful to Starbucks business.” Read more
Colombian Growers Will Set Own Coffee Price
The Colombian Coffee Growers Federation plans to bypass the coffee commodities market and establish a price floor of $1.50 per pound to ensure Colombian growers recover their cost of producing approximately 15% of the world’s coffee. Read more
Trade Retaliation Heightens Tensions in Pakistan-India Faceoff
India withdrew most favored nation trading status with Pakistan immediately following a suicide bombing that killed at least 40 national police and injured hundreds more. India then imposed a 200% duty on any goods imported from Pakistan. Read more
Researchers Endorse Shade-Grown Coffee
Coffee grown in full sun generally produces higher yields but researchers at Columbia University and Cornell who applied an economic model to shade-grown coffee suggest farmers will benefit from higher price premiums. Read more
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