Foodstuffs Trump withdraws tariffs on bananas, beef and coffee
US President Donald Trump is withdrawing some of his tariffs on food imports from abroad. The White House published a list of the affected products.
15.11.2025, 01:32
15.11.2025, 01:43
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These include coffee, tea, bananas, tomatoes, beef, cocoa, spices and fruit juices. Certain fertilizers are also listed.
Trump is under political pressure due to high food prices in the USA. Recently, the focus has been on the rise in beef prices, for example. According to data from the US Statistics Authority, the price of ground beef has continued to rise every month since the beginning of the year.
This is how the government explains the move
The US government's explanation for the move was that the USA does not produce enough of certain agricultural products itself. Many of the trade agreements and ongoing negotiations therefore concern countries that export significant quantities of these agricultural products.
As president, Trump is pursuing an aggressive tariff policy. After the start of his second term in office in January, he imposed additional import tariffs, some of them very high, on many countries. The US government accuses the countries of having benefited from a long-standing imbalance in customs rules to the detriment of the USA.
In recent months, many countries have renegotiated with Trump's government and concluded trade agreements, which the Republican has presented as his personal success. However, many economic experts emphasize that there are basically only losers with such a radical customs policy. In the USA, it is above all ordinary people who suffer as they pay for this policy in the form of higher consumer prices.
