Tariff of 15% ‘challenging’ but avoids a trade war – Enterprise minister
A tariff rate of 15 per cent is “challenging ” but avoids a rate of 30 per cent – which would have “closed the market ” in the US, The Minister for Enterprise has said.
Peter Burke said that the EU-US deal avoids both a trade war and EU counter-measures, which would have had an effect on the north-south economy.
He said “the devil is in the detail ” of the trade agreement finalised on Sunday by Donald Trump and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland.
“We had a lot of modelling carried out on the various different options, and some were very perverse, that would have closed the market if you had over a 30 per cent tariff with a stacking mechanism, ” Mr Burke told RTÉ Радио.
„ Ключовото е, че ще има редица издълбани аутове. Очевидно авиацията е представена като нула за нула, само че също по този начин по отношение на агрофини и евентуално спиртни питиета. Включително самолета, някои селскостопански артикули и избрани химикали - както и покупки на Европейски Съюз на Съединени американски щати н...
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