How Tariff Wars and Tariffs Crush Coffee-Growing Countries
Across the global coffee trade, a quiet injustice brews: coffee-producing countries are systematically penalized for adding value to their own beans, locked into poverty by tariff systems that reward raw exports and punish local processing. Now, with the U.S. escalating a tariff war that threatens even unprocessed coffee beans, these exploitative policies are no longer hidden—they’re becoming even more damaging.
