Irish Examiner view: Double threat as Donald Trump's tariffs could spark US-EU trade war

Ireland's exports are under new pressure due to the tariffs — and things may get much worse when the EU decides how it will respond

US president Donald Trump meeting his cabinet at the White House last week ahead of the wide range of tariffs he announced on Wednesday. Picture:AP/Pool

Now that the dust has settled on US president Donald Trump’s tariff announcement, we are left to sift through the bluster for the fine print.

And there is quite an amount of sifting to do. Mr Trump has been ridiculed for imposing tariffs on some of the remotest and emptiest territories on earth, from the territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands to Svalbard and Jan Mayen.