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Marketplace Morning Report

New day, new tariffs

Marketplace Morning Report

Marketplace

News, Business

4.5927 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration is set to impose new tariffs on foreign soft timber and wood products, citing national security concerns. The White House also released more details on a string of new tariffs the president announced in social media posts last week. Also on the show: why the median price of an existing home is now higher than that of a new one, and what a potential government shutdown means for the Friday jobs report.

Transcript

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0:00.0

New Day, new tariffs from Marketplace. I'm Sabrina Bennishoor in for David Brancaccio,

0:06.8

foreign soft timber and wood products. Those are the latest goods to get tariffs from the White House.

0:13.5

The Trump administration announced these new import taxes yesterday. The rationale was

0:17.4

national security. The administration also released more details on a string of new tariffs

0:21.7

President Trump announced in social media post last week. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser reports.

0:26.6

A White House proclamation says there will be a 10% tariff on timber and lumber imports and 25% import

0:33.8

taxes on wooden furniture, vanities, and kitchen cabinets.

0:40.1

This will all take effect October 14th.

0:43.9

On January 1st, the furniture tariff rises to 30%, and the vanity and cabinet tax increases to 50%.

0:47.6

There are carveouts.

0:49.4

The White House says tariffs on wood products from Britain will be capped at 10%,

0:53.7

with a limit of 15% for wood imports

0:56.6

from the EU in Japan.

0:58.5

The White House says these tariffs are necessary for national security and imports have

1:03.0

increased lumber mill closures in the U.S.

1:06.0

The National Association of Home Builders, though, says higher lumber tariffs will increase

1:10.6

housing costs.

1:11.9

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

1:14.8

President Trump and congressional leaders were unable to come to a deal yesterday to avoid a government shutdown,

1:20.8

which, barring some other last-minute deal would take effect tonight at midnight.

1:25.0

Markets did not care about the shutdown until they did, at least a

1:29.2

little bit. Let's do the numbers. Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ futures are all down in the 2-3-10th percent

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