The US President announced the new tariffs, which will apply to goods being exported to the US, during a speech at the White House on Wednesday evening, with Taoiseach Micheál Martin expressing concer

The Trump administration’s introduction of separate import tariffs for the UK and EU has exposed the complexity around the island’s Irish whiskey industry post-Brexit. The United States remains by far the biggest market for the spirit,

The tariffs will impact a three-decade economic model heavily criticized by the EU, and Dublin fears the loss of 80,000 jobs. Ireland has a GDP of just over half a trillion euros. Its exports to the United States amount to approximately 14% of that figure,