Inside Trade

September 21, 2025

House lawmakers to introduce bill to eliminate tariffs on coffee

By Jason Asenso  / September 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Don Bacon (R-NE) have finalized a bill that would eliminate tariffs on most coffee products, the vast majority of which are not produced in the U.S. Khanna previewed the bill last month, calling U.S. tariffs on top global coffee producers like Brazil and Colombia a “15-20 percent tax on Americans at the start of their day,” as he wrote in an Aug. 13 post on X . The Trump administration last month began imposing country-specific...

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