Ireland is "not exactly celebrating" the new EU-US trade deal, an Irish minister of state has said, but added that it provides certainty.
US President Donald Trump and European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced on Sunday they have agreed a US tariff on all EU goods of 15%.
That is half the 30% import tax rate Trump had threatened to implement starting on Friday. He said the 27-member bloc would open its markets to US exporters with zero per cent tariffs on certain products.
Neale Richmond, a minister of state in Ireland's foreign affairs department, said the deal "gives us that certainty that has been lacking in the last number of months".
Among EU countries, Ireland is the most reliant on the US as an export market.
