The Home Furnishings Association (HFA) is closely monitoring the recent tariff updates affecting exports, which have had significant impacts across multiple regions: 46% from Vietnam, 34% from China, 32% from Taiwan, and 20% from the EU. Recently, manufacturers have responded in diverse ways to mitigate the effects of these tariff
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After months of stalled negotiations, congressional Democrats were able to move broad climate, clean energy, and health care legislation in the first two weeks of August. This bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act and signed into law by President Biden, is smaller than the original ‘Build Back Better’ proposal but
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