The U.S. has added Ireland to a list of countries it is keeping tabs on owing to a large and growing trade surplus that has stoked the ire of President Donald Trump.
As part of the U.S. Treasury’s semiannual report on the macroeconomic and foreign exchange policies of its largest trading partners, the body added Ireland and Switzerland to a nine-strong “Monitoring List” of countries whose macroeconomic policies or currency practices “merit close attention.”
