{"id":708673,"date":"2026-07-24T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708673\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:58:08","slug":"scotch-whisky-levy-lifted-as-trump-imposes-new-wave-of-us-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708673\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotch whisky levy lifted as Trump imposes new wave of US tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First Minister John Swinney said: &#8220;This a win for Scotland and a win for the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It benefits businesses and workers on both sides of the Atlantic, and not just among whisky producers, but also the businesses and communities that support the sector across Scotland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump&#8217;s announcement in April that he would drop whisky tariffs had sparked a row over who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cg5p7yg82jro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">able to claim credit<\/a> for changing his mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swinney said he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c179dvr0pwdo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raised the issue with President Trump<\/a> during a previous meeting in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But political opponents accused him of taking credit for the deal over King Charles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first minister said it had come courtesy of the &#8220;remarkable contribution of the King&#8221; and a &#8220;Team Scotland&#8221; approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We were able to partner with the bourbon industry in the United States, raise the issue with President Trump in the Oval Office, and get this issue on his agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Minister John Swinney said: &#8220;This a win for Scotland and a win for the United States.&#8221; &#8220;It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708673","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=708673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}