
December arabica coffee (KCZ25) on Friday closed up +6.70 (+1.80%), and November ICE robusta coffee (RMX25) closed up +107 (+2.61%).
Coffee prices settled sharply higher on Friday due to tighter inventories at the ICE coffee exchange. The 50% tariffs imposed on US imports from Brazil have led to a sharp drawdown in ICE coffee inventories, a bullish factor for coffee prices. ICE-monitored arabica inventories fell to a 1.5-year low of 576,753 bags on Friday. ICE robusta coffee inventories fell to a 1.75-month low of 6,464 lots last Friday. American buyers are voiding new contracts for purchases of Brazilian coffee beans due to the 50% tariffs imposed on US imports from Brazil, thereby tightening US supplies, as about a third of America's unroasted coffee comes from Brazil.