Coffee Bros. has collected more than 10,000 signatures to support a petition to release coffee from American rates, a movement that underlines the growing concern in the special coffee industry about rising costs and instability of the supply chain.
The campaign, launched less than two months ago, received a quick traction with small coffee roasters, café owners and consumers who are confronted with some coffee Bros. describes as a “perfect storm” of economic and environmental pressure. These include record -high coffee prices, loss of climate -related crop and new rate policy that threatens to increase the costs even further.
“We are at a bending point,” said Hunnewell, co-founder of Coffee Bros. “Just like rates, rising costs and global instability that are the hardest, small routes are forced to choose between increasing prices or compromising the quality to survive.”
Coffee prices have doubled in recent months due to bad harvests in Brazil and Vietnam, global inflation and market speculation. Rates that on some input as high as 46% inputs reach the market further, push many to lower alternatives and endanger years of sustainability and quality improvements.
According to Hunnewell, the impact goes beyond coffee beans. Many essential items that are used by small coffee companies – including paper products, filters and packaging – are also caught in the tarief cruising fire, with little domestic production options available.
“Many small companies survived Covid-19 by quickly adapting,” he said. “But these compound pressure rates, inflation, loss of climate-controlled crops have few options.”
Coffee Bros. argues that trade policy must reflect the reality that coffee cannot be produced on a scale in the US. The petition requires three important changes: freeing coffee from rates, recognizing it as a non-manufacturable farm and securing the livelihood of small American companies and international coffee farmers.
“Coffee cannot be grown on a scale in the US – and treating as it is under trade policy is both harmful and short -sighted,” said Hunnewell.
Coffee Bros. continues to encourage policy makers, market leaders and the public to support a more sustainable and more realistic trade policy for coffee.
The petition is available at Change.org under the title “Exempt coffee from rates”.
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