US will scrap Irish whisky tariff, Trump says

While in Ireland attending a golf tournament at the golf course he owns in Doonbeg in County Clare, US President Donald Trump said the US will repeal a 10 percent tariff on Irish whisky, a duty that currently falls ⁠under those imposed on all European Union wine and spirit exports to the United States. “Everybody’s been bugging me” to do it, the president said at a trophy ceremony. “And I said, ‘On behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs off [Irish whisky].'” Irish whisky producers have been navigating the tariffs levied by the Trump administration on European Union imports for over a year, as part of the administration’s broader trade and import clampdown.