John Swinney urges Trump to exempt scotch whisky from 10% tariffs | Trump tariffs
Scotland’s first minister, Donald Trump, US President Aberdeenshire Resort for a second golf field for a generous opening ceremony before the Scotch whiskey to exempt 10% of the schedules.
John Swinney said that he believes that the Scotch whiskey industry was a “an opportunity window” to look at a specific tariff that is believed to cost £ 4 million a week.
Although Trump supported Kamala Harris in the US elections last year, Swinney provided significant access to the President during his five -day visit to Scotland.
It seems that the couple was sitting together at a dinner organized by the President at Trump International Resort in Menie Estate on Monday evening, when they talk together for about an hour.
On Tuesday morning, when he joined by Trump’s sons Eric and Donald JR, a more official meeting was defined as “very enthusiastic”.
And in a speech before cutting the red strip to open a new 36 -hole course dedicated to his deceased mother, who grew up near Stornoway in Lewis, Trump thanked Swinney in a conversation. He asked Swinney to applaud in front of other guests and described him as a “very special man”.
He also said that British Prime Minister Kier Starmer was “very elegant ..
Speaking to journalists after the ceremony, Swinney said, “I think President Trump has a willingness to look at the issues I gave him. I don’t think there was a position a few days ago, because I think that President Trump was a dust agreement and dust and the end of the issue.”
In June, the UK and the US signed a trade agreement, but it did not protect every sector from tariffs.
On Monday, the President did not realize that there was a problem with the whiskey tariffs of journalists at Turnberry Resort in Ayshire.
“We will talk about it, I didn’t know it was a problem,” Trump said. I’m not a big whiskey, but maybe I must be.
Swinney also used the official meeting on Tuesday to discuss the hunger crisis in Gaza. Later, he said: “I started to use the enormous influence on the Israeli government in order to reveal the unbearable, unjust and inhuman situation that emerged in Gaza and end the human crisis we have witnessed.”
Trump played a tour on the new course before returning to Raf Lossiemouth to return to Washington DC, where he said he had to yakla Fires all over the world ”.
