Trump says US to probe furniture imports, threatening tariffs

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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...