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The American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance (AKCA) recently expressed disappointment over the Trump Administration’s decision to delay the implementation of a 50 percent tariff on kitchen cabinet imports to January 2027.
While the current tariff rate of 25 percent is providing some relief, the AKCA relayed concern that by delaying the promised 25 percent rate increase, the American cabinet industry will remain on life support.
“We are gravely disappointed by the delay of the additional 25 percent to 2027, which threatens the livelihoods of more than 250,000 hardworking Americans who depend on this industry,” says Perry Miller, President of Kountry Wood Products. “American kitchen cabinets represent less than 0.5 percent of the total cost of building a home, and this additional 25 percent tariff is critical to stop foreign countries cheating,”
“Family-owned businesses like mine will now face difficult decisions in the months ahead as subsidized and dumped foreign cabinet imports, priced at upwards of 70 percent below market level, flood into our country,” he continues. “We respectfully urge the Trump Administration to reconsider this 50 percent tariff delay now as we fight to save hundreds of thousands of cabinet manufacturing jobs across America’s heartland.”
The American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance (AKCA) is a coalition representing thousands of American kitchen cabinet manufacturers and workers across the United States. AKCA’s mission is to protect domestic manufacturing, preserve American jobs, and strengthen the U.S. industrial base.
John Gahm, president of Kitchen Kompact, calls the delay in imposing the additional 25 percent tariff is contrary to the president’s promise to fight for and revive American manufacturing. “To address the root cause of rising housing costs, federal, state and local governments need to cut the burdensome regulations that represent 25 percent of the cost of building a new home rather than roll back the critical protections our industry needs,” he says.
“American cabinet workers are devastated by this delay as we have the capacity here in the U.S.A. to ramp up production tomorrow. We are respectfully asking the Trump Administration to reverse course before we see more plants close their doors.”
Some members say the proposed 50 percent tariff is not going far enough. “A flood of unfairly traded foreign cabinet imports is destroying thousands of jobs in America’s cabinet industry,” says Jimmy Lee, Engineering Department at Wellborn Cabinet Inc. “It’s taking jobs from the working American man and woman … if our great President Donald J. Trump doesn’t impose a 100 percent tariff to stop the cheating, our jobs will be soon wiped out.”
