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US chocolate prices surge amid soaring cocoa costs and tariffs (1 Viewer)

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For many Americans celebrating Easter, the holiday is incomplete without chocolate: chocolate bunnies and eggs, bars tucked into Easter baskets, candy hidden in plastic eggs for Easter egg hunts.

But rocketing cocoa costs will mean higher prices for chocolate candy this year, and Donald Trump’s tariffs on all imports will likely keep prices high for the foreseeable future.

Someone please show me how we are going to grow cacao on US soil...
 
So, stop eating chocolate, stop drinking coffee. Turn instead to Jack Daniels for your fix. After all, Jack is at least an American product, so let's all MAGA.
 
We will 'acquire' another country's lands and call it our own?

good one Bongs, yur catching on today.

first we need to acquire a few countries that are not going along with the program
such as Canada and Greenland.

IMHO we will not acquire any Cocoa countries, the geography is to far South for the American Technate to glom onto. that will go to the Union of South American Nations to annex; there actually is a method to the madness coming soon to an Empire near you....


Chocolate beans, also known as cocoa or cacao beans, are grown primarily in tropical regions close to the Equator, within about 20–25 degrees north and south latitude—a zone often called the "cocoa belt" https://www.perplexity.ai/search/where-is-chocolate-beans-grown-WVRsglw8TjyFeqE.WheNRg


there isn't much on the South American Technocracy, here is a Wiki....

Union of South American Nations

Intergovernmental union unasursg.org
The Union of South American Nations, sometimes also referred to as the South American Union, abbreviated in Spanish as UNASUR and in Portuguese as UNASUL, is an intergovernmental regional organization. It was set up by Hugo Chavez to counteract the influence of the United States in the region. The UNASUR Constitutive Treaty was signed on 23 May 2008, at the Third Summit of Heads of State, held in Brasília, Brazil. Wikipedia


Club of Rome Regions official.jpg...for those keeping up, this is about what it will look like in Future years. note that South American Technate will prolly be out of our reach. South America: Notable countries include Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia, which are part of cocoa’s native range. (from Perplexity above)

also a lot of Cocoa will come from the African Technate as seen in number 8 on the map.


blessings till the end of time.

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Someone please show me how we are going to grow cacao on US soil...
Hard to measure the impact of tariffs at this point. But I know, the "sky is falling"!

From the link...
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But the price of chocolate candy specifically has been rising over the last year, largely because of the soaring cost of cocoa, the key ingredient for chocolate. In 2023, farmers in west Africa – where 70% of the world’s cocoa is harvested – started to struggle with climate-related crises, including drought and plant disease, that decimated their cocoa production.

Estimates put the cocoa deficit at more than 400,000 tons, significantly inflating the price of cocoa over the last few years. Cocoa has cost around $2,000 a ton over the last few decades. In 2024, it peaked at more than $12,000."
 
Ah, so Biden voters. Still don't see how they're to blame for bad weather.
chaos isn't a biden thing. that would be the economic moron, trump.
 
I already bought chocolate. When it's gone, **** it. I'll buy it again or not.
 
A little pain due to tariffs is one thing.

Pricing out women from access to chocolate?

they will adapt and eat less.


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Time to check supplies in the bomb shelter,
lock myself away and wait it out.

yep, a common sense Solution. dig your shelter a little deeper this week, china came out with an improved version of a kinder gentler war head to hit you with...


China detonates non-nuclear hydrogen bomb — mediaThe South China Morning Post has cited researchers as saying the 2kg magnesium hydride device generated a 1,000 degrees Celsius THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL

The South China Morning Post has cited researchers as saying the 2kg magnesium hydride device generated a 1,000 degrees Celsius fireball

Chinese researchers have successfully tested a non-nuclear hydrogen bomb that created a sustained fireball, far outperforming traditional explosives, the South China Morning Post has reported.

 
Hard to measure the impact of tariffs at this point. But I know, the "sky is falling"!

From the link...
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But the price of chocolate candy specifically has been rising over the last year, largely because of the soaring cost of cocoa, the key ingredient for chocolate. In 2023, farmers in west Africa – where 70% of the world’s cocoa is harvested – started to struggle with climate-related crises, including drought and plant disease, that decimated their cocoa production.

Estimates put the cocoa deficit at more than 400,000 tons, significantly inflating the price of cocoa over the last few years. Cocoa has cost around $2,000 a ton over the last few decades. In 2024, it peaked at more than $12,000."
So, add some tariffs on top for a little treat?
 
Who? Biden? Why blame him for costs that surged last year largely due to environmental effects?
What a completely worthless post.

Yeah, blame Biden for rising cost of chocolate under Trump’s economically devastating tariffs. Is Biden causing the US dollar to collapse under Trump’s shit trade policies? Is it Biden’s fault that the whole world is losing faith in the US under Trump?
 
Hard to measure the impact of tariffs at this point. But I know, the "sky is falling"!

From the link...
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But the price of chocolate candy specifically has been rising over the last year, largely because of the soaring cost of cocoa, the key ingredient for chocolate. In 2023, farmers in west Africa – where 70% of the world’s cocoa is harvested – started to struggle with climate-related crises, including drought and plant disease, that decimated their cocoa production.

Estimates put the cocoa deficit at more than 400,000 tons, significantly inflating the price of cocoa over the last few years. Cocoa has cost around $2,000 a ton over the last few decades. In 2024, it peaked at more than $12,000."
It's not that hard to estimate the impact of a tariff. Just add what % the tariff is to the cost.
the hard thing is to try to keep up with Trump's lack of a plan for tariffs.
 

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