U.S. President Donald Trump bade farewell to Ireland on Sunday, ending his two-day visit by announcing he will remove tariffs from Irish whiskey.
\n\nAP reports Trump used the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open to reveal he had been asked about the issue by everyone, including Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin and even some of the golfers.
\n\nThe crowd erupted into cheers and a round of applause at the news with Irish Open winner Shane Lowry among them.
\n\nThe surprise trade move came a day after the U.S. president stirred controversy by calling for Irish reunification, as Breitbart News reported.
\n\n“Everybody’s been bugging me” to do it, the Republican president said. “And I said, ‘On behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs off’” of Irish whiskey.
\n\nIrish whiskey currently faces the standard 10 percent tariff imposed by Trump on most imports from the European Union, which was reduced from 15 percent to 10 percent in July.
\n\nTrump 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, as international trade negotiation give-and-take go on.
\n\nHe gave the…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/sports/
