Food producers welcome removal of tariffs on EU dairy products to US

Businesses have so far paid more than $3.3bn in duties

Ornua Co-op owns Kerrygold and its CEO John Jordan said the removal of tariffs represents a unique opportunity for continued growth and further investment in the US market. File Picture. 

Food producers on both sides of the Atlantic have welcomed the suspension of tariffs on EU dairy products into the US.

The US and EU this week agreed a truce in their near 17-year conflict over aircraft subsidies, suspending for five years one set of Trump-era tariffs which had soured relations between them.