New tariffs target goods such as kitchen cabinets
By: Kinsey Crowley
USA Today
..... President Donald Trump announced a new round of tariffs on September 25, [2025] focusing on specific goods like kitchen cabinets and furniture.
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"We will be imposing a 50% Tariff on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom anises and associated products, starting October 1st. 202. Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on upholstered Furniture," Trump said in a Truth Social post.
..... In the same series of posts, he announced a 25% tariff on all "Heavy (Big) Trucks!" imports and a 100% tariff on brand-name drugs.
..... Trump's sweeping tariffs against counties around the world could be at legal risk due to a case headed to the Supreme Court. Reuters reported these new actions could be part of the Trump administration's shift to better-established legal authority.
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The president said in his Truth Social post the reason for the cabinet, vanity and furniture tariffs is "the large scale 'FLOODING' of these products into the United States by other outside Countries. It is a very unfair practice, but we must protect, for National Security and other reasons, our Manufacturing process. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
..... Trump teases the focus on furniture in August [2025]in a Truth Social post, saying he would run a "major tariff investigation."
....."This will bring the Furniture Business back to North Carolina, south Carolina, Michigan, and States all across the Union," he wrote on August 22. [2025]
..... Jobs for furniture and wood product manufacturing have been cut in half since 2000, Reuters reported, and the United States imported about $25.5 billion in furniture in 2024, with more than half of those imports coming from Vietnam and China.
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Some furniture executives worry about rising prices and the lack of domestic manufacturing capacity.
..... Ramping up manufacturing in the United States "would require years of investment in building the facilities and workforce that most in this industry cannot afford to make," RH RH.N, formerly known as Restoration Hardware. CEO Gary Friedman said, according to Reuters.
..... A tariff is a from of tax imposed on imports from another country.
..... Tariffs can cerate more demand for domestic manufacturers, but those companies are also part of the global supply chain and therefore also affected by tariffs, experts have previously explained to USA Today.
..... Trump has frequently sued tariffs as part of foreign policy negotiations in his second term, but many of them were reduced or delayed.
..... In November, [2025] the Supreme Court will hear arguments for an appeal of a lower court's decision that Trump overreached when he invoked a 1077 law to impose tariffs on imports form most countries. If the justices rule against Trump, the administration may need to issue refunds on revenue collected from approximately half of the tariffs.
..... Contributing: Rachel Barber, USA Today; Reuters