U.S. cabinet makers, interior designers and home remodelers hope new tariffs on imported kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and upholstered wooden furniture that took effect Tuesday will boost domestic production of those products and benefit them in the long term.

But many expect short-term pain from the import taxes as they face skittish customers worried about paying more and uncertainty and disruption in an industry already dealing with a challenging labor market and rising project costs.

A proclamation President Donald Trump signed on Sept. 29 cited national security and foreign trade practices as grounds for putting import taxes on imported lumber, wood, furniture, kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities.

Kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities will be subject to a 25% tariff. That increases to 50% on Jan. 1.

Advocacy group American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance and others in the industry have been lobbying for tariffs to help offset a flood of cheap cabinets from Asia and elsewhere that has increased the past decades as more furniture manufacturing moved off shore.

The group says the tariffs will “save American cabinet manufacturers from a flood of unfairly traded foreign cabinet imports that are threatening 250,000 cabinet jobs across the country.”

In 2024, $55.3 billion in furniture imports came into the U.S., a 40% jump from 10 years ago, according to U.S. Census data.

The pandemic and a sluggish housing market have been a boon for the home remodeling market, as home-owners stay put and make home improvements.

Against that backdrop, cabinet makers and sellers and home remodelers are adjusting to the new tariffs.