While the tariffs announced by Donald Trump this week were bad news for Irish exporters, they likely won't have much of an impact on Irish consumers. Not directly, anyway. However European nations ...

I was taught to use “fewer” with countable nouns: “less coal, fewer sacks”. Perhaps the rule could be expressed in a more contemporary form as: “less protectionism and fewer tariffs”.

1. Is Trump’s tariff plan working? That depends on your perspective. There is no doubt that it is raising cash for the US treasury through higher taxes on imports. In the second quarter of this year, ...