SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Some local coffee companies told ABC 10News they were already getting hit pretty hard before these tariffs even happened.
“The coffee industry has been hit hard over the past nine months,” Jeff Taylor, President of Bird Rock Coffee, said. “Beginning last September, the C-Market – which is the commodities market which set the base level pricing for coffee – it started around $2.30 and in the last month it’s been as high $4.65.”
Taylor said the tariffs could be the icing on the cake for a good that’s already seen rising prices with hopes of that C-Market price dropping…