(6 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belem, Brazil – 05 August 2025
1. Various of harvester picking acai and sliding down a tree
2. Harvesters picking acai berries
3. Harvesters carrying buckets full of acai berries
4. Harvester picking berries
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Ailson Ferreira Moreira, acai producer:
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“The acai that's all produced here, if only people consume it here, it's going to be a lot of acai, right? Then there are the factories that export. Then the price is good. If there's too much acai here, people won't be able to consume it all and the price will drop.”
6. Harvester picking berries on a white tarp
7. Acai harvester Mikael Silva Trindade, placing crates on boat
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mikael Silva Trindade, acai harvester:
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“If it doesn’t get exported, it will stay here and the acai will be cheap. There will be nowhere to market it. I think it’s bad. The more you export, the more valuable it becomes. But if there’s too much to sell, it will stay here and become cheap.”
9. Harvesters on boat through the forest
10. Aerial of Combu Island
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11. Man carrying a crate of acai berries from a boat
12. Crates full of acai berries
13. Ver-O-Peso acai open market
STORYLINE:
The 50% tariffs imposed by the U.S. President Donald Trump on Brazilian products threaten the acai supply chain, a superfood highly popular in the United States.
Nearly all acai berries consumed in the U.S. come from Brazil, especially from the state of Para and accounts for 90% of the country’s production.
More than a trend, acai provides income for traditional communities and helps preserve the Amazon.
With the tariffs, the most vulnerable producers are already feeling the impact, with lowering prices because of surplus.
“If it doesn’t get exported, it will stay here and the acai will be cheap, there will be nowhere to market it,” harvester Mikael Silva Trindade told The Associated Press while picking acai berries.
A very demanding job, the harvest includes climbing acai trees with virtually no safety equipment and sliding down with branches of the berry as many times as needed to fill a basket, then a crate.
A full crate of acai berries at the local market sells for around $50, but the price is expected to plummet.
Acai exports from Para production jumped from less than 1 ton in 1999 to more than 61 thousand tons in 2023, according to ABRAFRUTAS (Brazilian Association of Fruit and Derivative Producers and Exporters).
The United States is by far the largest importer of the Brazilian berry, but with 50% tariffs, there could be a hike in prices for the American consumer of smoothies and superfood bowls.
AP Video shot by Alan K. Guimarães
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