{"id":626420,"date":"2026-09-16T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626420\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:36:19","slug":"irelands-eu-commissioner-welcomes-us-tariff-lift-on-irish-whiskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626420\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s EU Commissioner Welcomes US Tariff Lift On Irish Whiskey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 16 September 2026 12:13\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/67371a6ee4804.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            US President Donald Trump announced plans to scrap the current 10% tariff on Irish whiskey.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s EU Commissioner is welcoming the lifting of US tariffs on Irish whiskey.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump announced that the current 10% tariff on Irish whiskey would be lifted after discussions he had with Clara&#8217;s Shane Lowry among others at the weekend. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ireland will now be treated like the UK, where there are no tariffs on Scotch or whiskey from Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Michael McGrath says the move will bring benefits to the whiskey industry here:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Jolene Minogue from Flynn&#8217;s Irish Whiskey, which launched 12 months ago at the National Ploughing Championships says it&#8217;s the &#8220;best news&#8221; possible:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 16 September 2026 12:13 US President Donald Trump announced plans to scrap the current 10% tariff on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-626420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}