{"id":449022,"date":"2025-09-24T23:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449022\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T23:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:11:11","slug":"simon-harris-to-meet-us-secretary-of-commerce-for-mooted-economic-relationship-talks-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449022\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Harris to meet US secretary of commerce for mooted \u2018economic relationship\u2019 talks \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">T\u00e1naiste <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/simon-harris\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/simon-harris\/\">Simon Harris<\/a> will meet with US secretary of commerce Howard Lutnick in Washington DC, on Thursday, where he will also officially open Ireland\u2019s new embassy to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/us\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/us\/\">United States<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The new office is located at the significant address of 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, next to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Mr Harris said that he hopes his meeting with Mr Lutnick will revolve around further discussions on how both countries can protect \u201cour mutually beneficial economic relationship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe are now the fifth largest source of foreign direct investment in America,\u201d he said in New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAcross every region of the union, Irish companies have created 200,000 American jobs,\u201d he said in announcing a report which maps Ireland\u2019s economic influence across the States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The report also charts the trade flow between the two countries, a subject that has been under the scrutiny of the Trump administration, and Mr Lutnick specifically, during their global tariff strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The T\u00e1naiste will be welcomed to Washington by Ireland\u2019s Ambassador to the United States, Geraldine Byrne Nason. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The opening of the new embassy building represents the culmination of a four year project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Harris will tell the gathering at Thursday\u2019s reception that it is a physical manifestation of the Global Ireland strategy to have a flagship office reflecting the historical depths and on-going economic relationship between both countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris will meet with US secretary of commerce Howard Lutnick in Washington DC, on Thursday, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[679,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-449022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-irish-politics","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-us","11":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115261806237520332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449022","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=449022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}