'Curve ball': Irish whiskey producers fret over US tariffs
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 For Tony Healy, an Irish whiskey producer in Dundalk, near the UK border with Northern Ireland, US tariffs of 20 percent on EU alcoholic drinks were a huge and unexpected "curve ball". Producers in the Republic of Ireland are looking enviously at distilleries across the border in the UK region of Northern Ireland where the tariff rate is just 10 percent.
For an Irish whiskey producer in the town of Dundalk, near the UK border with Northern Ireland, tariffs of 20 percent on EU alcoholic drinks are an unexpected "curve ball". But for competitors across the border, the tariff rate is just 10 percent. "Distilleries in the north of Ireland have an...
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
