{"id":214454,"date":"2025-06-26T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214454\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T00:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:04:18","slug":"alcohol-health-warning-labels-to-be-delayed-amid-us-eu-tariff-dispute-says-harris-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214454\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol health-warning labels to be delayed amid US-EU tariff dispute, says Harris \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The introduction of health-warning labels on alcohol products will need to be delayed due to concerns over the trade tariff dispute<\/a> with the United States, according to T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also highlighted how there is just \u201c13 days to do a deal between Europe and the United States\u201d that will protect jobs, investment and the economy here and elsewhere in the European Union.<\/p>\n

When he announced his tariffs, US president Donald Trump<\/a> initially said trade coming from the EU would be subject to a 20 per cent rate, before more recently threatening tariffs of 50 per cent if no deal was agreed before July 9th.<\/p>\n

Officials in Brussels have begun to accept an agreement will likely mean conceding to import duties of 10 per cent, in place since Mr Trump\u2019s \u201cliberation day\u201d announcement.<\/p>\n

Mandatory health labelling for alcohol products, including cancer warnings, was among a raft measures included in the Public Health Alcohol Act. The plan had been to introduce the labels in May 2026.<\/p>\n

Mr Harris last month cast doubt on the plans and said at a press conference on Wednesday it is his view that \u201cwe will need to delay that\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we need to do that for a variety of reasons, most particularly the situation in relation to trade and tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said jobs have to be protected and Irish industry has to be supported \u201cat a really key moment of economic turbulence\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the Government will make a decision on the matter in the coming weeks adding: \u201cthis is about providing a brief breather\u201d as opposed to changing the legislation, which he said is clear in relation to labelling.<\/p>\n

Mr Harris had been asked if the Government would introduce the labels within the next five years.<\/p>\n

He said the length of any delay has not been decided but \u201cit would be for less than five years\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said that many parts of the legislation have already been introduced including separation of alcohol products in shops, restrictions on advertising near schools and minimum unit pricing.<\/p>\n

Mr Harris, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, has convened a meeting of the Trade Forum next Wednesday in advance of the July 9th deadline for a deal on tariffs \u201cto tease through issues with key stakeholders\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Harris said he is \u201cin constant contact\u201d with EU trade commissioner Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d adding: \u201cWe need to find a deal here that works because the consequences of not having a deal and running a higher rate of tariffs has a real impact on jobs and investment\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI will continue to stress the importance of reaching a deal to avoid any further negative impact on economies not only in the EU, but the US also, and making the case for zero for zero tariffs in as many areas as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The introduction of health-warning labels on alcohol products will need to be delayed due to concerns over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,299,5187,1699,7160,2612],"class_list":{"0":"post-214454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-simon-harris","14":"tag-us-tariffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114746744205561588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}