Ireland will use relationship with US to talk down trade war – finance minister

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said he couldn’t speculate on what US products the EU could buy more of to help avert a trade war (Brian Lawless/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Irish government will use its relationship with the US to help talk down the prospect of a trade war with the EU, its finance minister said.

Paschal Donohoe said that the EU-US trading relationship had made “both of those economies richer over time” and a trading dispute “will cause harm to us all”.