Trump announces 10% tariff about wood and 25% on cabinets and furniture

by Andrea
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US President Donald Trump ordered on Monday (29) 10% tariffs on madeira and several wood products, and another 25% over cabinets of kitchen, dressing tables e furniture Upholstery of wood.

In a publication on Truth Social, the US leader said the rates will take effect on October 14 and added that on January 1, 2026, it will increase the 30% cabinet rate and upholstery to 50%.

In the publication, Trump said that about wood were necessary to strengthen local industries and support national security.

“In my opinion, the actions of this proclamation will, among other things, strengthen supply chains, reinforce industrial resilience, create high quality jobs and increase the use of domestic wooden capacity, so that the United States can fully satisfy domestic consumption and, at the same time, create economic benefits through increased exports,” Trump wrote.

In March this year, the White House ordered the Department of Commerce investigate the national security represented by imported wood – most of Canada.

Trump has been criticizing the northern neighbor for months for his significant wood exports to the US.

The American leader routinely states that the country has enough trees to meet their own wooden needs and has harshly criticized Canadian tariffs on American sawn wood, claiming that the country can do without Canadian wood.

In his March executive order that began the investigation, Trump said the US has a “abundance of funds more than enough to meet our domestic wood production needs.”

According to industry experts, Tariffs may end up increasing the costs of wood and construction – and even raise the prices of houses to consumers.

The United States has 300 billion trees, but houses and home builders warn that the country currently has no industrial capacity to meet the demand and that imposing a significant fare on Canadian wood imports may further aggravate the current housing accessibility crisis.

Sawed wood is a essential ingredient in the American residential construction industryand the United States get about 30% of soft wood that use Canada annually.

Wooden imports from the neighboring country are already subject to compensatory rights and anti -dumping of 14.5%.

Several tariffs imposed by Trump have greatly increased furniture prices in the last year.

Overall, the furniture last month cost 4.7% more than in August 2024, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Living and dining room furniture, in particular, became more expensive – rising 9.5% in the last 12 months, the BLS said.

Furniture prices fired With the increase in Trump tariffs over China and Vietnam, the two main furniture importing countries.

Both countries exported US $ 12 billion in furniture and utensils to the United States last year, according to data from the US Department of Commerce.

Furniture prices had fallen considerably in the last two and a half years before Trump’s tariffs.

But the US leader said foreign manufacturers were overcrowding the US market and that tariffs were needed to recover national manufacturing power.

Wayfair’s actions (W), RH (RH) e Williams-Sonoma (WSM) They have plummeted in recent days with Trump’s threat with tariffs. But Trump said US furniture manufacturers have faced difficulties in the face of foreign imports. For example, he highlighted the decaying furniture industry of North Carolina in a series of social media posts last Thursday.

“The reason for this is the large -scale ‘flood’ of these products in the United States through other countries,” Trump said in a publication on the Social Truth last week.

“It’s a very unfair practice, but we should protect, for reasons of national security and other reasons, our manufacturing process.”

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