Trump says US to probe furniture imports, threatening tariffs

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened fresh tariffs on imported furniture, saying his administration will launch a probe on the sector. "We are doing a major Tariff Investigation on Furniture coming into the United States," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. "Within the next 50 days, that Investigation will be completed," the US leader added. He said the tariff rate for furniture has yet to be decided, but justified the plan as a means to bring the furniture industry back to states like North Carolina, South Carolina and Michigan. The US employed over 340,000…