According to the Vietnam Commodity Exchange (MXV), cautious sentiment continued to dominate the world raw material market in the trading session on July 30 after US President Donald Trump unexpectedly imposed an additional 40% tax on Brazilian goods, raising the total tax rate to 50%.
For the industrial raw materials group , at the end of yesterday's trading session, the industrial raw materials group recorded strong selling pressure with 6/9 items simultaneously closing in red. Notably, the developments in the coffee market became mixed after the latest announcements from the White House.
At the close of yesterday’s session, Arabica coffee prices fell more than 1% to $6,468/ton, while Robusta jumped nearly 2% to $3,411/ton. This reflected a clear divergence in investor sentiment in the face of the risk of a change in the supply-demand balance.
Yesterday (July 30), US President Donald Trump announced the application of an additional 40% tariff on goods from Brazil, raising the total tax rate on goods from this country to 50%. The executive order was signed today with the implementation date being postponed to August 6.
However, coffee is not yet on the list of exempted products, while negotiations between the two sides are still ongoing and have not shown any signs of ending. Currently, Brazilian coffee accounts for about 30-34% of the market share in the US market, in the context that this is a country with one of the highest coffee consumption rates in the world, with 76% of the population using coffee daily.
According to MXV, the imposition of tariffs will not only affect the competitiveness of Brazilian coffee, but also increase prices in the US, causing inflation, and these taxes will eventually be passed on to US consumers at the time of purchase. The coffee industries in Brazil and the US are closely linked through the supply-demand relationship, which cannot be separated, so any factor affecting them will have a profound impact on the economies of both countries.
In the metal market , at the end of the trading session on July 30, the price of COMEX copper reversed and decreased by 0.7% to 12,315 USD/ton. Notably, in this session, the price of COMEX copper recorded the largest one- day drop in history right after the US announced the scope of tax on imported copper.
According to a statement released by the White House on July 30, a 50% tariff will be imposed on some imported copper products starting August 1. However, contrary to months of market expectations, refined copper, a US commodity that relies heavily on imported supplies, is not subject to the tariff.
Instead, the tax policy targets semi-finished copper products such as copper pipes, copper wires, copper bars, copper sheets, and copper-rich derivatives such as pipe joints, cables, connectors, and electronic components. Immediately after the information about the scope of the tax was announced, copper prices on the market plummeted, at one point falling more than 18%.
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