US will scrap Irish whisky tariff, Trump says
The announcement comes several months after the US decreased the tariff by 5 percent.
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.
The Scotch Whisky Association said July 24 that the zero-tariff policy had come into effect, calling it “welcome news for businesses on both sides of the Atlantic” that would provide “greater confidence to invest, grow exports, and support jobs and communities”.