Trump Threatens Fresh Tariffs Related to Furniture, Movies

Cabinet samples at a warehouse in Linden, New Jersey.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

President Donald Trump said he would levy new tariffs to boost the domestic film and furniture industries through a pair of sweeping, yet confusing, plans.

Trump postedBloomberg Terminal on social media Monday that he would be “imposing substantial Tariffs on any Country that does not make its furniture in the United States.” It’s unclear how that would work; companies, not countries, manufacture furniture and the duties are charged on specific imports, not governments.