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Americans can expect the price of their Day cup Java Stretching your wallet slightly more than usual as a litany factors affecting the global supply chain results in rising prices.
In February, wholesale Arabica coffee prices broke their previous record to $ 4.30 for a pound – twice the price of last year – According to futures contracts He traded in New York.
Now, coffee chiefs who have used their chances of futures markets, feel burned and could give the price to customers. Companies traditionally invest in the futures market in the hope of ensuring lower costs, but coffee prices are still rising.
In February 2025 the average price of ground roast coffee increased to a record maximum of $ 7.25 per pound, According to government data.
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Coffee beans are expected to increase during 2025, and companies want to compensate consumer costs. (Reuters / Dado RUVIC / Reuters)
For an industry that sees most of their revenue from products consumed at home, it is the idea that customers are less likely to look for coffee replacement, allow companies to have greater flexibility in their prices and compensate for consumer costs.
“We must be responsible at the end of the day,” JM Smucker CEO Mark Smucker said in November earnings. “We want to make sure we are able to pass on changes in and down and we intend to do it.”
JM Smucker did not respond immediately to Fox Business's request about comment.
Numerous factors – such as tariffs, weather and crop growth – tend to have a significant impact on coffee prices. In 2024, the largest coffee producers in the world recorded an influx in the impact of climate on their crops.
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Espresso on Outpost Coffee in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2. March 2025. (Reuters / Carlos Osorio / Reuters)
The export of green coffee beans from Brazil dropped in December after a season of heavy drought and frost by 11.3% According to the report From the International Coffee Organization (ICO). Vietnam exports also decreased by 39.5% after the country recorded inappropriate drought in October.
“I would emphasize that the coffee market is very speculative today because we have not yet affected the harvest season,” Smucker said. “A lot of volatility we see is really related to financial speculations. When we get into the harvest, we'll have more Intel when it comes to what it looks like.”
Exports of coffee from Asia and Oceania also recorded a significant decline in 2024, while ICO was a decrease of 31.2%.
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Sklapá coffee is seen in a warehouse in France in Brazil, 17 February 2025. (Reuters / Carla carniel / reuters)
Geopolitical tension between Israel and Hamas and an increase in the reported attacks throughout the Red Sea led to a transport delay affecting the vital naval path that corresponds to 30% of the international consignments of containers, according to Report 2024 from the World Bank.
Further times of transport through the Suez canal have also forced coffee producing countries such as Asia, increase its costs, According to the report from ICO.
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Moreover The US Ministry of Agriculture It found that China has expanded its nationwide coffee consumption, and Chinese consumers are expected to buy 6.3 million coffee bags-national records for the world's most populous countries by the end of 2025 that could burden the already thin supply chain.
“We will continue to pull the levers we have at our disposal, whether it is a trade or an apparently reduced cost to try to ensure that we do not accept the price too much and not accepting the price and too much [be] Very careful what consumers can carry, “Smucker said.
