Laminate
There is a growing shortage of laminate in the US related to an ITC ruling which blocks all imports from any country that are not licensed by unilin or valinge.
This is causing the base price of the builder basic to go up in price – although more than just the license fee.
Overall I just want what is best for consumers and I want to be able to deliver products at a competitive price – so I think this is a limited set back and will long term only result in 2-3% price addition that is paid to unilin as their patent royalty. Short term it is causing 20-30% on the low end for products to jump because people are worried about importing from China, Canada and Europe.