President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffs have led to trillions in stock market losses and unimaginably large bills for American small businesses importing goods from China.

They’ve also dramatically raised the cost of popular materials used in home renovations, experts told DailyMail.com.

Italian marble for countertops, European French Oak for flooring and custom glass paneling for sliding doors and windows are among the hardest hit products.

These items and other products like specialty lighting and plumbing fixtures have seen 10 to 30 percent price hikes globally, according to Jodi Peterman, CEO and owner at the nationwide interior design firm Elizabeth Erin Designs.

This proves to be a slap in the face to families reaching for the American Dream of homeownership with the ability to put the final touches to make their home their own.

Eli Moyal, the founder and chief operating officer at design-and-build firm Chapter, told DailyMail.com that glass is one of his biggest worries.

That’s because the United States bought over $2.6billion in glassware last year from China, by far the largest exporter in this product category. 

With a 145 percent tariff in effect, US companies importing glass hypothetically would have had to pay roughly $3.77billion in taxes to the Treasury over the course of a year.

Eli Moyal, the founder of design-and-build firm Chapter, and Jodi Peterman, CEO and owner of Elizabeth Erin Designs, both say key materials for home renovations have gone up in price after President Donald Trump instituted worldwide tariffs

Among the hardest hit materials is marble, used for kitchen countertops and flooring in luxury homes. Italian marble is particularly popular and was previously subject to a 20 percent tariff because Italy is in the European Union

European French Oak is another popular input that could fall out of favor if tariffs come back into effect on the EU in July

‘Most of the glass work from windows, doors, store fronts, and custom glass is coming from China,’ Moyal said. ‘When we saw the tariffs, we saw the pricing going high immediately.’ 

Conditions have changed drastically since April 9, when Trump announced on Truth Social that he was implementing a 90-day pause on his ‘reciprocal tariffs’.

Those levies briefly took effect at 12.01am on April 9 and had been placed on dozens of countries, with rates ranging from 10 percent all the way up to 50 percent.

Trump backed off these tariffs by the afternoon that same day, with some reports indicating that the tumbling bond market – a key indicator of the US government’s economic health – was the thing that got him to take a breather.

Trump’s 10 percent across-the-board tariff on the entire world is still in effect. And in the same announcement where he paused the reciprocal tariffs, he added that he’d be ratcheting import taxes on Chinese goods all the way up to 125 percent. Then, on April 10, he clarified that tariffs on China were actually 145 percent.

Homeowners looking to renovate their kitchen or bathroom should expect to see a 10 percent cost increase at the most, though Moyal said in most cases it’ll be much lower than that.

If the reciprocal tariffs come back into effect in July, Moyal said costs for his customers will rise above that 10 percent maximum based on what the effective levy is on the country their desired materials originate from.

Moyal founded his firm about four years ago. When he onboards a client, he creates custom design blueprints to their exact tastes before building it.

Most of the inventory currently in home improvement stores have not been affected by the tariffs, simply because the items on the shelves were in the US before the tariffs went into effect

Given Trump’s decision to pause the majority of his tariffs for now, Moyal said its a good idea to get going on remodeling your home if you’ve been seriously mulling it over

‘We start working with the client and helping them pick tiles, helping them pick the materials for the kitchen, the cabinets, the counters, the plumbing fixtures, the appliances. We lead them through picking every single material they use in the project,’ he said.

Chapter’s biggest market is in New York City, where it does 100 renovations per year. The company also operates in Westchester County, Connecticut, New Jersey and Florida, most often in Miami. 

Moyal’s business has never existed within a free-trade environment, since Trump implemented tariffs on home appliances, steel and aluminum in his first term. President Joe Biden kept many of those tariffs in place.

Because of the stop-and-go rollout of Trump’s tariff regime this time – plus the carveouts for Mexico and Canada under the USMCA trade deal – Moyal said there is plenty of inventory in home improvement stores that hasn’t been affected yet. 

Additionally, most of the items on the shelves were in the US before any of the tariffs went into force. 

This applies to finished materials like cabinetry, plumbing fixtures and appliances like washing machines, all of which have raw components from Mexico, Canada, China, countries in the European Union and other nations.

‘Whatever is in stock right now, it’s fine, but if the tariffs are going to stay in six months and in a year, we’re going to see increases,’ he said.

‘When the inventory is finished here, and the new inventory comes to us, what will the tariff be then? That’s the big question,’ Moyal added. ‘Where are we going to be in six months? Is that still going to be 100 percent from China? Is it going to be still dozens of percent from Europe?’

Given Trump’s decision to pause the majority of his tariffs for now, Moyal said its a good idea to get going on remodeling your home if you’ve been seriously mulling it over.

‘I think that definitely if you’re planning to upgrade something in your home, start looking into it now and start committing to appliances, material, whatever you can secure now,’ he said. ‘I would suggest to do it this year.’