{"id":385789,"date":"2026-01-03T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385789\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:02:19","slug":"tariffs-still-crippling-canadas-cabinet-makers-say-as-increase-paused-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385789\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs \u2018still crippling,\u2019 Canada\u2019s cabinet makers say as increase paused &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Kelly Geraldine Malone<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted January 2, 2026 12:00 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Kitchen Cabinet Association is welcoming U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11596286\/donald-trump-tariffs-furniture-increase-delay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">postponement of tariff increases on furniture, cabinets and vanities<\/a>, but the industry is still being devastated by the duties.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11477029\/trump-tariffs-lumber-furniture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump hit the industry with 25 per cent tariffs in October<\/a> but paused a promised increase of 30 per cent for furniture and 50 per cent for cabinets and vanities that was set to take effect this week.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Kitchen Cabinet Association vice-president Luke Elias says the levies have caused layoffs already.<\/p>\n<p>He has said <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11579925\/buy-canadian-rules-canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the federal government\u2019s Buy Canadian procurement policy<\/a> has helped, but more needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Carney says U.S. \u2018violated\u2019 CUSMA; trade talks at \u2018negotiations about negotiations\u2019 stage'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TWB_SITE.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t11:08<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarney says U.S. \u2018violated\u2019 CUSMA; trade talks at \u2018negotiations about negotiations\u2019 stage\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The CKCA responded to the news of the tariff increase being paused in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11597437\/h3n2-flu-surging-us-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CDC-flu-update-Dec.-30.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tH3N2 flu is surging \u2014 and just had the \u2018perfect environment\u2019 for a spike\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11597110\/remote-work-option-ending-2026\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e43a7a95e21094b527c4438fdcec8d14356ebefe28ac543f93f216de792cb6b3.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRemote work option ending for thousands of workers in 2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCKCA is pleased to see this announcement, however, a tariff of 25 per cent is still crippling to many businesses in our industry that rely on exporting their products to the U.S.,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCKCA calls upon the Federal Government to continue with productive negotiations on behalf of our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba-based Elias Woodwork employs more than 400 people and exports around 80 per cent of its product to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Company president Ralph Fehr says that if the increased duties had taken effect this week, it would have been a catastrophe for the firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 With a file from Global\u2019s Ari Rabinovitch<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kelly Geraldine Malone The Canadian Press Posted January 2, 2026 12:00 pm 1 min read Descrease article&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,103,5457,9086,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-385789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-consumer","11":"tag-donald-trump-tariffs","12":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}