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US President Donald Trump's decision to impose 50% tariffs on all Brazilian products entering the US is worrying producers and farmers in the South American giant. Coffee producers are particularly concerned, as a third of the coffee produced in Brazil is consumed in the US. teleSUR   These and many other stories now! 🌐Join teleSUR's community and be part of a space where your ideas matter.  https://chat.whatsapp.com/KLABTE41aSj3ioYabXQQ6K 🗣 Don't be left behind, join teleSUR's Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98Z437Noa2tjytCt1N Web💬 https://www.telesurenglish.net/ X🧶 https://twitter.com/telesurenglish Instagram 📸 https://www.instagram.com/telesurenglish/?hl=es Facebook 📱 https://www.facebook.com/teleSUREnglishOfficial Youtube ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuTmpLY35O3csvhyA6vrkg Tiktok👌🏼 https://www.tiktok.com/@telesurenglish?_t=8hMLCY0a6z7&_r=1

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00:00since president trump announced that the u.s will impose 50 percent tariffs on all brazilian products

00:06many people are wondering what will happen to its largest agricultural import coffee a commodity

00:11which has undergone boom and bust cycles for centuries 100 years ago here in paraiba they

00:18produced a lot of coffee there are historical records showing that there used to be over six

00:25million coffee trees here then there was a problem with a fungus and the government support dropped

00:33so when there was a price crash the industry was wiped out even though around one-third of all coffee

00:40drank in the u.s comes from brazil this only represents around 17 of the coffee that is

00:45actually grown there half of all coffee grown in brazil is exported to the european union and around

00:51a quarter of it is consumed in brazil where unlike the coffee shipped abroad it is roasted ground and

00:57packaged generating more jobs and profit for the sector a tariff that is set on all products equally

01:05won't affect all products the same way coffee that is roasted ground and bagged in brazil for local

01:12consumption has boomed during the last few years due to climatic factors causing the price to nearly

01:20double so if the tariffs cost the price to drop i think that in the case of the coffee value chain

01:33there is a margin that will help absorb any possible losses

01:38many of the old coffee towns are now historic landmarks in paraiba where strains of arabica coffee

01:45that had disappeared across the rest of brazil have been preserved and after nearly a century of

01:49neglect are now cultivated for the gourmet market people remain optimistic we believe that even in

01:57the case of a market disturbance coffee is a popular beverage all over the world and certainly

02:07if the product has good quality people will continue to pay for it it's hard to predict exactly

02:13what will happen when and if the trump administration imposes and maintains its tariffs but one thing for

02:19certain is that people are not going to stop drinking coffee brian meir tell us sir are ya paraiba

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