What Trump’s tariffs might mean for Ireland
US secretary of state Marco Rubio told Tánaiste Simon Harris it was a priority of the Trump administration to address the “trade imbalance” between Ireland and the US when they spoke by phone on Tuesday.
By now it’s known what that means: tariffs.
US president Donald Trump has already talked about a 25 per cent import tax on Europe so that phone call won’t have been a surprise.
Nothing, as yet, is certain; not least the level of import taxes that might be imposed and whether it will be a blanket rate on all goods across the EU.
But what would drastically increased tariffs mean for Ireland?…
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