By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN
(CNN) — President Donald Trump threatened Monday to impose “substantial Tariffs on any Country that does not make its furniture in the United States,” he wrote in a Truth Social post. “Details to follow!!!” he added.
This comes after he announced last week that a 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, as well as a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture, would go into effect later this week.
It’s unclear how Trump’s latest tariff threat would work; businesses, not countries, manufacture furniture. Typically, sectoral duties are charged uniformly regardless of the country of origin.
Trump’s post, however, appears to hint at a tariff scheme that could call for higher levies on countries that ship more furniture to the United States than others.
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