Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a> and even some of the golfers. Irish Open winner Shane Lowry was among them, Trump said. <\/p>\n\u201cEverybody\u2019s been bugging me\u201d to do it, the Republican president said. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018On behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs off\u2019\u201d of Irish whiskey.<\/p>\n
Irish whiskey currently faces the standard tariff imposed by Trump on most imports from the European Union, which was reduced from 15% to 10% in July.<\/p>\n
Trump announced in April that he was lifting certain tariffs on U.K. whiskey, which includes Scotch and spirits made in Northern Ireland, creating an imbalance with Ireland. <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s surprise announcement was met with loud whistling and cheers from the crowd of spectators. Details on how soon the tariff would be lifted were not immediately available. <\/p>\n
Chris Swonger, president & CEO of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, called Trump\u2019s announcement \u201canother positive step toward reducing barriers to spirits trade\u201d and said everyone would benefit from it during the coming holidays.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs U.S. hospitality businesses enter the critical holiday season, this action will provide a welcome boost for retailers, restaurants, consumers and the American economy,\u201d Swonger said. <\/p>\n
In May, the Irish Whiskey Association called for the tariffs to be removed, arguing that such a step would help many U.S. companies with Irish products in their portfolios and avoid uncertainty for consumers.<\/p>\n
Trump said on April 30 that he gave the United Kingdom a tariff break on whiskey after King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited the White House. \u201cThe King and Queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do, without hardly even asking!\u201d Trump posted on social media.<\/p>\n
The Scotch Whisky Association said July 24 that the zero-tariff policy had come into effect.<\/p>\n
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This story has been corrected to reflect that the current tariff rate on Irish whiskey is 10%, not 15%, after being reduced in July, and that Trump said on April 30, not in May, that he gave the United Kingdom a tariff break on whiskey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JILL LAWLESS DOONBEG, Ireland (AP) \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[558,740,114,5741,115,139,141,140,99,109,76686],"class_list":["post-398999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-latest-headlines","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-politics","tag-social","tag-social-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}