{"id":463295,"date":"2025-10-30T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/?p=463295"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:45:06","slug":"bipartisan-senators-introduce-the-no-coffee-tax-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/bipartisan-senators-introduce-the-no-coffee-tax-act-463295.html","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Senators Introduce The No Coffee Tax Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/bi-partisan-law-makers-introduce-bill-to-exempt-coffee-from-tariffs-427437.html\">members of the US House of Representatives introduced legislation that exempting coffee from tariffs<\/a>. Created by the bipartisan team of Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Don Bacon (R-NE), the bill would retroactively exempt all imported coffee from any tariff imposed after January 19<sup>th<\/sup> of this year.<\/p>\n<p>And yesterday, Wednesday, October 29<sup>th<\/sup>, a bipartisan pair in Congress\u2019s other half are introducing similar legislation. Spearheaded by Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev) and Rand Paul (R-KY), the bill \u201cwould block President Donald Trump\u2019s administration from placing additional tariffs on coffee imports from any country it has normal trade relations with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/10\/28\/2025\/bipartisan-senate-pair-proposes-repealing-coffee-tariffs\">Semafor<\/a>, the new bill comes a day after the Senate voted down a resolution to remove the 50% tariff on all Brazilian imports, which includes coffee. Called the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/files\/ifn0l6bs\/production\/4e103b313cc51c7eb5a9904f030d70d26a42b3ea.pdf\">No Coffee Tax Act<\/a>,\u201d the bill takes a similar stance as the one proposed in the House, stating that \u201cno tariff or other duty may be imposed in excess of the rate assessed as of January 19, 2025.\u201d This will include green and roasted coffee, decaf, as well as coffee skins and husks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis coffee tax doesn\u2019t help American business in any serious way, but it does raise costs at the grocery store for hardworking families across the United States,\u201d Cortez Masto said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The president has expressed an interest in curbing the rise in coffee prices brought on by tariffs. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/we-want-to-get-coffee-down-a-little-bit-soaring-caffeine-prices-have-trumps-attention-090042329.html\">Yahoo! Finance<\/a>, the president stated on Monday that \u201cwe want to get coffee down a little bit,\u201d which could signal a softening on the US stance on tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Per Yahoo, coffee prices have gone up over 25% since the president took office in January.<\/p>\n<p><em><a class=\"addbackground\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zaccad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0<a class=\"addbackground\" href=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/author\/zac-cadwalader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s similar to a bill brought before the House last month.","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":272305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27348],"tags":[32993,32991,32992,31011,18595,21267],"class_list":["post-463295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-catherine-cortez-masto","tag-no-coffee-tax-act","tag-rand-paul","tag-semafor","tag-tariffs","tag-yahoo-finance","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463374,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463295\/revisions\/463374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}