Turns out you really do only have to ask: Trump says he will remove tariffs on Irish whiskey after visit to Ireland

Well, that was easy.

President Donald Trump connected Sunday said he would remove tariffs connected Irish whiskey aft golfer Shane Lowry and the Irish premier curate did the unthinkable: They asked him.

"Everybody's been bugging me," the president said during remarks astatine the Irish Open. "They're saying, tin you do maine a favor? It's truthful unfair what's going on."

The crowd shouted wildly aft the president said he would assistance the tariff, which sits astatine 10%.

Ireland's nationalist national broadcaster said past twelvemonth that astir 45% to 50% of Irish whiskey is exported to the United States, making the US its biggest export market.

In May, the Irish whiskey relation said the tariffs connected whiskey should beryllium removed.

"Reducing the tariff for Irish drinks would use the galore US companies who person Irish premium products successful their portfolio," the relation said successful a property release. "It would debar uncertainty for the US user and fortify the cask waste and acquisition successful Kentucky, Tennessee and different US states."

Trump placed the 10% tariff successful February arsenic portion of his temporary world tariff connected astir imports. Popular Irish whiskey brands see Jameson, Bushmills, Tullamore D.E.W., and Redbreast.

Trump's tariff policies successful his 2nd word person upended markets, thrown business for a loop, and strained relations pinch long-standing allies, most precocious Canada. They've besides landed his management successful ineligible trouble.

Trump has said the tariffs are meant to rebalance what he calls unfair waste and acquisition relations, jump-start American industry, and springiness the US leverage successful world negotiations, for illustration separator information and supplier trafficking.