Trump's Tempestuous Tariffs: Ireland and the EU React

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the last 24 hours the global economic order may have transformed forever, as Donald Trump declares crushing tariffs for countries all over the world, not least the European Union. In this hot-off-the-press episode, Naomi explains what this might mean for Ireland and the EU, how the figures add up (or how they don't) and why the reasoning behind these new tariffs has experts all over the world scratching their heads ...

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:42.0	Hello and welcome back to the Irish passport listeners where we're coming to you with another hot off the press running to our microphones moment.
0:43.9	We haven't one of these moments in a while, Naomi.
0:48.8	Yeah, at the same time it feels like there's never a dull moment because all of this stuff continues to happen.
0:51.3	It's just that it's not every day that it touches on Ireland.
0:52.8	But this is one of those days.
0:54.4	This is definitely one of those days. Anyone who's listened to the news today will know exactly what we're talking about. We are,
0:59.0	of course, talking about the announcement by Donald Trump's White House of massive new tariffs,
1:05.9	basically on every country in the world. Almost. Not Russia, interestingly. But, yeah, most of them.
1:11.7	You know, I've been looking for that information for ages, Naomi.
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