Tánaiste Simon Harris met US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in Washington on Wednesday, coincidentally the day tariffs collected on imports from China into America kicked off at an initial 104 per cent rate – increased to 125 per cent later that day, according to a presidential social post. This marked day one of a new world order, potentially broader than a trade war and Harris, representing a small EU member state without an independent trade policy, had no cards to play.  The tariffs on Irish exports to the US will be whatever is unilaterally imposed on the EU as…

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