The floral industry is bracing for price adjustments across the supply chain following new tariffs imposed on America’s top three trading...
Tariff Delay Brings Industry ‘Sigh of Relief,’ For Now
The floral industry is breathing a little easier after President Donald Trump’s proposed 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports, set to go into...
SAF Experts Share Insights on Tariffs and the Economy
Since his inauguration Monday, President Donald Trump announced he would impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and a 10% tariff on...
Floral Industry Braces for Tariffs
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian and Mexican products starting Jan. 20 Tariffs are coming,...
How Might a Trump Administration Affect the Industry?
The presidential election is behind us, but much uncertainty lies ahead. Get the scoop on how President-elect Donald Trump’s policies might impact...
Tariffs Take Effect on Floral Containers from China
This week President Trump implemented the latest round of tariffs on imports from China, including floral containers and other packaging materials,...
President Trump Unveils Immigration Reform Plan
In a Rose Garden address, President Trump unveiled his proposal to reform America’s immigration system calling it a plan “that puts the jobs, wages...
Trump Administration Issues Final Rule Allowing Association Health Plans
The Trump administration has published a rule that allows for expanded association health plans. The plans, known as AHPs, allow small-business...
NAFTA Negotiations Continue
The seventh round of the NAFTA negotiations are taking place this week in Mexico City. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, House Ways and...
White House Briefing Confirmed for CAD Attendees
Breaking News! SAF has just confirmed officially that we are taking CAD participants to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House...
Association Health Plans Proposed
Following President Trump's executive order in October of 2017 “Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States,” the US...
Trump Administration Moves to End DACA
President Trump announced last week that he would rescind the Obama-era program that protects 800,000 younger undocumented immigrants from...
Trump Administration Begins Rollback of WOTUS
The federal government is looking into specific ways to end an Obama-era rule that expanded federal jurisdiction over pollution in streams and...
White House, GOP Push Health Care Reform but Uncertainty Remains
This week, the Trump administration announced plans to dismantle the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP, the part of the Affordable Care...
Annual SAF Lobbying Event in D.C. Takes on Heightened Importance
With a new administration in the White House, a new Congress on Capitol Hill, and a number of floral industry-related issues in national headlines,...