{"id":560872,"date":"2026-05-01T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560872\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:50:09","slug":"whisky-tariffs-deal-sparks-political-squabble-over-who-claims-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560872\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisky tariffs deal sparks political squabble over who claims credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The removal of tariffs on whisky imports to the US matters both economically and politically in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Donald Trump said he was taking the step in honour of King Charles and Queen Camilla&#8217;s state visit to the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But with less than a week to go before the Scottish election, the welcome for the announcement was accompanied by competing claims about who can take credit for the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Economically, whisky is a major export for Scotland and the wider UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scotch Whisky Association estimates that the US tariffs were costing the industry about \u00a34m a week. The trade body had worked closely with its US counterparts to make the case for a policy shift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That underlines that this is not a free gift from the US to the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a deal that improves trade conditions for Scotch and Irish whiskey being sold to America, as well as US bourbon and used casks coming into the UK market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It appears to be a zero for zero tariff deal &#8211; with import taxes being dropped by both countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The removal of tariffs on whisky imports to the US matters both economically and politically in Scotland. President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}