Some have warned that the tariffs to be announced this afternoon in the Rose Garden in Washington could be a bigger financial calamity than the great financial crisis of 2008. Others have called for cool heads and for the EU to respond very carefully to whatever tariffs are announced.
Either way change is on its way to world trade patterns and investment and Ireland could be disproportionately impacted.
Joe discusses this and more with Mike O’Sullivan the Director of Unio Wealth Managers and the author of 'The Levelling and How Globalisation Is Coming To An End'.