By Scott Wright SCOTTISH and UK parliamentarians must up their game to end the tariffs that are having a disastrous effect on single malt exports to the US, a leading whisky distiller has declared. The 25 per cent import tariff introduced by the Trump administration – as part of a long-running trade dispute between the US and the European Union over aircraft subsidies – has cost the Scotch whisky industry hundreds of millions of pounds in lost exports since it was imposed in October 2019. The US election win of President-elect Joe Biden has offered hope Washington will draw back from the protectionist stance of Donald Trump.