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Chamber President says Trump’s tariffs turned global trade ‘upside down overnight’

by Evelyn Cullen

THE newly appointed president of Letterkenny Chamber of Commerce has expressed his concerns about how tariff sanctions from the United States could impact businesses across Donegal.

The eyes of the world were on President Donald Trump’s podium on Wednesday last during his personally titled ‘Liberation Day’, as he announced new tariffs on goods being imported into the United States – the largest importer of goods in the world.

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President Trump’s decision to impose these tariffs in order to try to balance America’s trade deficit, has shaken the global economy to its core and the repercussions will reverberate worldwide, including here in Donegal, it is feared.

Full story in today’s edition of the Donegal News. 

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