The CEO of furniture maker LaZBoy, Kurt Darrow, has indicated U.S. metals duties and associated retaliation have meant there is no certainty whether “raw material increases have topped out”. So far the company’s volumes are not suffering with a 56% rise in U.S. seaborne imports in the three months to May 31 on a year earlier. That may indicate stockpiling given all U.S. furniture sales rose 5% in the three months to April 30. LaZBoy’s overseas supply chain is led by imports of chairs from China (56% of shipments in the 12 months to May 31) though Vietnam is becoming increasingly importan...