Juanny Romero, owner of Mothership Coffee Roasters in Las Vegas, has been preparing for what may be one of the largest changes in her company’s history: Moving the majority of Mothership’s roasting facilities to Ecuador.

It’s not of Romero’s own volition.

Since President Donald Trump retook the White House in January, his global trade war has affected some of America’s biggest coffee suppliers, including Brazil, Colombia and Peru.

Because of the comparatively high tariffs Trump has placed on goods from Brazil, Romero believes roasting coffee in Ecuador and shipping from there will ease her import tax burden. In 2017, United States Customs and Border Protection ruled that coffee’s “country of origin” can be changed by where beans are roasted, but that wasn’t directly related to tariffs.

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