US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced plans to remove the 10% tariff on Irish whiskey, responding to calls from Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin and golfers, including Irish Open winner Shane Lowry, at the close of a golf tournament in Ireland.
“Everybody’s been bugging me” to do it, Trump said during the trophy ceremony. “And I said, on behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs off” of Irish whiskey.