Furniture Tariffs 2025: How Companies Can Respond with Tools That Work

Furniture tariffs 2025 are set to disrupt one of the most globalised industries in the world. With over $12 billion in imports from China and Vietnam at risk, furniture retailers and manufacturers face rising costs, squeezed margins, and supply chain uncertainty.

The biggest challenge? Time. 

Furniture companies have less than 50 days to adapt sourcing, pricing, and product data. Traditional tools like spreadsheets or ERP systems cannot keep up with the speed and scale of change.

This article outlines:

• Why tariffs hit the furniture sector harder than other industries
• A 50-day action plan for responding to tariff shocks
• Which tools work (and which don’t) in a tariff crisis

Why 2025 Furniture Tariffs Hit Harder

Furniture companies face unique tariff vulnerabilities due to:

• Complex supply chains: Components often originate from multiple countries, making SKU-level traceability critical.
• High SKU variability: Thousands of product variations require granular, real-time data management.
• Long lead times: Supply decisions today affect margins months from now.
• Omnichannel commerce: Product information must be updated quickly across all channels: online, in-store, and via marketplaces.

Tariffs on imported goods can disrupt global furniture production, leading to shifts in supply chains and increased costs for manufacturers. These disruptions impact the overall market, affecting prices, availability, and competitiveness for furniture companies.

50-Day Action Plan for Furniture Companies

When tariffs are announced, every day counts. 

Here’s how to respond:

1. Audit your product catalogue by country of origin

Identify all SKUs and components sourced from countries subject to new tariffs. Analyse exposure and risk at both product and component level. This can be done using a PIM system.

Questions to answer:

1. Which products or components originate from China, Vietnam, or other targeted countries?
2. What proportion of your catalogue is at risk?
3. Where can you switch to alternative sourcing?

2. Model multiple tariff scenarios

Prepare for tariff rates of 10%, 25%, or higher. The precise rate for imported furniture has yet to be confirmed.

Organisations should model multiple scenarios using potential tariff thresholds, assessing how each might impact gross margins, overall profitability, and required price adjustments by SKU and sales channel.

3. Diversify sourcing quickly

Consider shifting production to lower-risk regions or expanding domestic operations.
Diversifying your sourcing strategy supports broader efforts to revitalise the U.S. furniture industry and attract international investment in local manufacturing.

Evaluate supplier flexibility and explore dual-sourcing opportunities to enhance supply chain resilience.

4. Enable multichannel repricing

Update prices simultaneously across websites, marketplaces, catalogues, and POS. Automate pricing updates to avoid human error and compliance risks. Here's one way how you can update the prices. 

Tools Furniture Companies Typically Try and Their Limits

Traditional tools like ERP systems, CMS platforms, or Excel spreadsheets simply aren’t built for the complexity of managing thousands of SKUs across multiple sales channels.

PIM Tools That Actually Work in a Tariff Crisis

To act quickly and accurately under pressure, furniture companies are turning to composable Product Information Management (PIM) software.

✔ A composable PIM is a modern platform that allows you to manage thousands of SKUs, pricing rules, supplier details, and compliance fields in one place.

Unlike traditional systems, a composable PIM is built on MACH principles (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless). 

That means it integrates easily with your existing tools and scales with your business. It's already helping leading furniture brands adapt to tariffs by enabling instant updates, automated workflows, and global data consistency.

👉 Watch how companies respond to tariffs in real time using composable PIM:

What to Look for in PIM Software to Handle Tariffs

To stay ahead of tariff changes, you need a product information management software that's flexible and built for speed. Here are the features that matter:

• Search and filter your SKUs easily: Quickly find which products come from affected countries or suppliers.
• Plan for different tariff scenarios: See how a 10%, 25%, or 40% tariff would affect your profits and pricing.
• Update all your channels at once: Make changes to product data, pricing, or legal fields everywhere you sell in just a few clicks.
• Let AI do the rewriting: Automatically update product descriptions to reflect new suppliers, prices, or materials.
• Monitor your suppliers: Keep track of which suppliers can adapt fast, and where your risks are highest.

A composable, MACH-based PIM makes all of this possible. It’s the kind of modern software leading retailers rely on to respond quickly, stay compliant, and protect their margins.

Tariff Impact Examples: With vs Without Composable PIM

Final Takeaway

The 2025 tariffs won’t be the last disruption, as furniture businesses also face upcoming Digital Product Passport regulations. Companies that rely on spreadsheets or ERP systems will struggle to keep up. The future belongs to businesses that:

• Model tariff impact on profits and pricing
  
  
• Update all channels in hours, not weeks
  
  
• Use AI to maintain compliance and accurate product data

Bluestone PIM is a composable platform, built on MACH principles and powered by more than 700 APIs, that makes all of this possible. It gives furniture companies the agility to protect margins, stay compliant, and respond to global trade shocks with confidence.