US President Trump says tariffs on Irish whiskey to be lifted
(Alliance News) - US President Donald Trump said Sunday that tariffs on Irish whiskey would be lifted after the Irish prime minister said they were "unfair".
Without giving details on when the decision would take effect, Trump said at the end of a visit to Ireland that it followed a conversation with Prime Minister Micheal Martin and Shane Lowry who had just won the Irish Open golf tournament.
"Taoiseach (the prime minister) and I talked about it, and Shane talked about it, and everybody's been bugging me...would you do me a favor? It's so unfair what's going on," Trump said of the conversations.
"Could you possibly take the tariffs off of Irish whiskey? And I said, on behalf of the US of America, I am going to take the tariffs off."
Ireland is part of the EU that struck an accord with Trump's administration last year fixing a limit of 15% on EU products entering the US market. Its key exports to the US had declined because of the tariffs.
source: AFP
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