Trump administration delays tariff increases on furniture, kitchen cabinets

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The Trump administration said on Wednesday it is postponing tariff increases connected imported upholstered furniture, room cabinets and vanities by a year, citing ongoing negotiations with trading partners.

Without the delay, the U.S. was acceptable to treble its tariff complaint connected room cabinets and vanities produced extracurricular the U.S. to 50% starting Jan. 1. The import work connected upholstered furnishings — including sofas and armchairs — was acceptable to emergence to 30% from 25% connected the archetypal time of 2026.

The postponement follows a November rollback by the Trump medication of tariffs connected imported foods specified arsenic beef, java and bananas, arsenic affordability concerns have weighed connected user sentiment astir the U.S. economy. Furniture prices person been outpacing inflation, with surviving room, room and eating country furnishings rising 4.6% successful November from a twelvemonth earlier, compared with a 2.7% yearly summation successful the wide Consumer Price Index.

According to the Dec. 31 White House announcement, the tariff complaint connected upholstered furniture, room cabinets and vanities volition stay astatine 25%.

"The United States continues to prosecute successful productive negotiations with commercialized partners to code commercialized reciprocity and nationalist information concerns with respect to imports of wood products," the White House said successful its statement.

"The United States volition truthful hold the summation successful tariff rates for upholstered furniture, room cabinets, and vanities that was acceptable to instrumentality spot connected January 1, 2026, nether the September 29, 2025, Proclamation for an further year," it added.

When President Trump announced the furnishings tariffs successful September, helium wrote connected societal media that his extremity was to assistance revive U.S. furnishings manufacturing successful North Carolina. Between 1999 to 2009, North Carolina's furnishings manufacture mislaid fractional of its jobs owed to accrued contention from Asia, according to a 2020 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Edited by Sarah Lynch Baldwin