Furniture exporters race to beat Trump's 90-day tariff window

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After threatening to impose a 24% tax on all goods imported from Malaysia, Trump said Tuesday he would cut rates 10% for most countries for 90 days. Factories here took that as a deadline to fill as many orders from US customers as possible before the higher rate kicks in.

At the Corporate Specialist kitchen furniture factory, workers were packing goods and loading them onto containers as fast as they could on Friday. "We are working overtime now and trying our best to motivate our workers, because these three months will be very busy," Tsai said. The company has managed to push out more then 30 containers the past four days – the amount it normally ships in a month.

Tsai said he fears distributors will abandon the factory if tariff rates go above 10%. But still, he added, there's no way the company could move production to the United States –"the cost is astronomical."Candice Lim, general manager at furniture maker Natural Signature, said she sees Trump's threats of higher rates as a bargaining position because of the costs they would impose on American consumers.

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