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

A worker assembles furniture at Corporate Specialist's factory. – AP

MUAR: Furniture manufacturers here are in a race against US President Donald Trump's tariffs.

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.