Many types of furniture, also on Canada’s tariffs list, are produced in North Carolina, which is home to the world’s largest furniture trade show. Ashley Furniture has a manufacturing and distribution facility in Advance in Davie County, and Kincaid Furniture was founded in North Carolina in 1946.
President Donald Trump earlier this week promoted tariffs as a way to bring furniture-making manufacturing to North Carolina.
New tariffs on Canada and Mexico have companies in North Carolina bracing for potential impacts, especially builders and their suppliers.
A bucktoothed llama that spends his days comforting chronically ill children at a North Carolina camp founded by NASCAR royalty has been crowned the world’s oldest llama in captivity.