US secretary of state’s comments may indicate Trump will raise issue with Martin during St Patrick’s Day visit
Simon Harris: 'I made the point that Ireland is the sixth-largest foreign investor into the United States.' Photograph: Chris J. Ratcliffe/BloombergIn a readout of the call supplied by the US State Department, officials said that they had “expressed eagerness to work together to address our shared interests.
Asked about the possibility of tariffs on RTÉ News last night, Mr Harris said: “Secretary Rubio doesn’t have responsibility for tariffs in the way I have responsibility for trade here. But he did have an appreciation of the economic relationship. Irish officials are nervous that Mr Rubio’s comments signal that president Donald Trump will seek to corner Taoiseach Micheál Martin on the Irish trade surplus with the US during his visit to Washington next week for the St Patrick’s Day engagements in the White House and on Capitol Hill.
“The trade figures speak for themselves but it was not an area of significant focus during the call, the real focus was on strengthening the relationship.” “We know that the new Trump administration has appointed a new ambassador to the World Trade Organisation ... but pharma products are very much contained in a multilateral agreement that was established and dates back a long number of years, and that has always been the case for innovation in that sector. So I think it’s very important that that will be protected,” Mr Burke said.
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