This week, we discuss the flooding in Asia affecting Thailand’s sugarcane crop and Vietnam’s coffee regions, alongside the untimely rains across Europe, the UK, and Central America impacting sugar beet and coffee. We also analyze the risk of unwelcome rain in key cocoa-producing areas of Africa.

Last week, the White House announced an agreement to cut certain U.S. import duties on goods from select Latin American (coffee-growing) countries, while fully removing the baseline 10% tariff applied to Brazilian products. In this article, we will provide a framework for understanding the tariff impact on the coffee market, then we will examine these tariff changes and explain their implications for coffee futures prices. Finally, we will see what the next tariff moves could

The expansion of Robusta coffee production in recent years has coincided with a rise in demand, as elevated Arabica prices push more...

Between July 10th and 11th, 2025, we interviewed 622 coffee producers from all coffee regions in Brazil to gather their views on the...