{"id":308013,"date":"2025-08-01T01:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308013\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:34:17","slug":"simon-harris-to-hold-talks-with-ni-leaders-over-us-trade-deals-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308013\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Harris to hold talks with NI leaders over US trade deals \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tanaiste Simon Harris will hold talks with the leaders of the Northern Ireland Executive on trade deals with the US later on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A focus of the talks will be the prospect of two different tariff rates being applied on the island, which Mr Harris has warned will pose \u201chuge complexities\u201d for businesses.<\/p>\n

An agreement was recently reached that will see most goods exported from the EU to the US subject to a 15% tariff.<\/p>\n

However, exports from Northern Ireland into the US are subject to a 10% levy, under a separate deal made between the UK and the US.<\/p>\n

\"Dublin<\/a>\"2,000<\/a><\/p>\n

The talks with Northern Ireland politicians come ahead of a trade forum of business stakeholders in Government Buildings in Dublin on Friday.<\/p>\n

The forum has been called to map out Ireland\u2019s response to the announcement that 15% tariffs will be applied on EU goods.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Mr Harris said: \u201cWith a lower tariff rate of 10% announced for the UK, the Tanaiste will seek the views of stakeholders as to the scale of the challenge that would be posed by two different rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Harris is also expected to receive an update on Thursday from the EU\u2019s leading negotiator on trade, Commissioner Maros Sefcovic.<\/p>\n

They will discuss the ongoing work by the European Commission to agree a final negotiation text with the US, and whether exemptions may be granted for certain sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanaiste Simon Harris will hold talks with the leaders of the Northern Ireland Executive on trade deals with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2557,15458,1216,1144,88834,13136,7160,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-308013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-european-commission","9":"tag-irish","10":"tag-maros-sefcovic","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-northern-ireland-executive","13":"tag-republic-of-ireland","14":"tag-simon-harris","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114950941588294699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308013","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=308013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}