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ココア価格は75%も暴落した——それなのに、イースターのチョコレートはなぜまだこんなに高いのか?

Cocoa Prices Crashed 75%—So Why Is Your Easter Chocolate Still So Expensive?

ココア価格は2024年末の高騰から急落したが、店頭のチョコレートは依然値上がりしたまま。その背景にある「価格の非対称性」の仕組みとは。
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The cocoa market has staged a dramatic reversal: after surging above $12,000 per metric ton in late 2024, cocoa fell to roughly $3,000-$3,300 by early April 2026. Yet the supermarket shelf tells a different story. Axios reported that Easter chocolate prices were still about 14% higher than a year earlier in early 2026, while the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said its March 2026 CPI for “candy and chewing gum” was still up 10.6% year over year. Even so, the National Retail Federation expects Americans to spend a record $24.9 billion on Easter this year. (axios.com)

Why doesn’t a collapsing commodity price immediately produce cheaper candy? The first answer is timing. Easter candy was manufactured months ago, when cocoa was far more expensive, and much of it was made from beans or contracts secured well before the market broke. Axios notes that producers are still working through higher-cost cocoa locked in earlier, and Mondelez told investors that the vast majority of its 2026 cocoa exposure had already been hedged at prices above current spot levels. In other words, today’s retail chocolate often reflects yesterday’s input costs. (axios.com)

The second answer is classic price stickiness. Retail chocolate prices are shaped not only by cocoa, but also by packaging, transport, labor, merchandising, and, above all, strategy. As AP observed, manufacturers have little incentive to cut prices quickly if consumers are still paying them. Mondelez, for example, raised prices globally by 8% in 2025 to offset cocoa inflation, and its executives have said they are now protecting key price points selectively rather than rushing into broad price cuts. This is economics in its most unsentimental form: prices often rise like a rocket and fall like a feather. (apnews.com)

There is also a deeper irony. Cocoa became cheaper partly because supply improved, but also because demand weakened. The International Cocoa Organization revised the 2024/25 market to a 75,000-ton global surplus, with production at 4.728 million tonnes and grindings at 4.606 million tonnes, while Mondelez said combined Q4 grindings were down 6%. So the cheaper bean is not simply good news; it is also evidence that high prices have already discouraged consumption. That is why the bargain may arrive late, cautiously, and perhaps not until Halloween. (icco.org)

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