Ireland cannot base its economic strategy on the 'Taco' theory – Trump Always Chickens Out

The Trump tariff story rolls on and on. Even over the past week or so, we have had threats of 50 per cent tariffs on the EU to apply from this weekend, then a postponement of this deadline till July, then a court ruling that the US president did not have the authority to impose such blanket tariffs at all, followed by an appeal court decision which put a stay on this decision. Confused? Well, join the club. Even the finest legal and political minds are struggling to keep up and identify where, exactly, we are now and what might…