After U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo’s very productive and successful mid-August visit to Vienna, another senior U.S. Government official, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach, arrived in Vienna for a series of talks. During his meeting with Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg at the Austrian Ministry of European and …
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 30 September, 2020 | Topics: Agriculture, Business, Commercial Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission, Doing Business in the U.S., Economic Affairs, Environment, Key Officials, U.S. & Austria | Tags: cyber security, cybersecurity, economy, foreign policy, government officials, transatlantic partnership, transatlantic relations
During his visit last week to Vienna, Austria, Secretary Michael R. Pompeo met with Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Minister of Finance Gernot Blümel, and Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg to discuss various topics, including trade and investment ties with Austria, the fight against COVID 19, economic recovery after the pandemic, …
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 18 August, 2020 | Topics: Ambassador, Business, Commercial Affairs, Doing Business in the U.S., Key Officials, Trade, U.S. & Austria, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: anniversary, antisemitism, Austria to Austin, business, business leader, CEO, coronavirus, COVID-19, discussion, entrepreneurship, exchange program, face masks, foreign policy, Friendship masks, Fulbright, government officials, industry, liberation, Marshall plan, Michael R. Pompeo, politics, President Trump, SelectUSA, student exchange program, transatlantic partnership, transatlantic relations, Trevor Traina
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross arrived in Austria last Tuesday. In his meetings with Minister of Finance Gernot Blümel , Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs Margarete Schramböck , and Minister for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology Leonore Gewessler , he discussed bilateral economic and trade relations. The USA is one of Austria’s most important trading partners, ranking second among the country’s export destinations. Austria is one of the fastest growing sources of foreign direct investment in the United States – with Austrian companies …
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 13 February, 2020 | Topics: Ambassador, Business, Chargé D’Affaires, Commercial Affairs, Commercial Opportunities, Key Officials, Trade, U.S. & Austria | Tags: Aussenwirtschaft Austria, business, business leader, CEO, economy, government officials, Harald Mahrer, Secretary of Commerce, SelectUSA, transatlantic partnership, transatlantic relations, Trevor Traina, Wilbur Ross, WKO, WKOe
During his trip to Styria last Week, Ambassador Traina visited the voestalpine site in Kindberg, where he stressed the importance of voestalpine as a highly valued investor in the US. Later that day, he congratulated Rector Martin Polaschek, Karl Franzens-University Graz , on his appointment and spoke with him about additional cooperation opportunities between the University and the US …
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 7 October, 2019 | Topics: Alumni, Ambassador, Business, Commercial Affairs, Doing Business in the U.S.
Ambassador Traina led the largest Austrian delegation ever to the Select USA Investment Summit, which took place this year from June 10-12 in Washington, D.C. More than 20 delegates, including representatives from multi-national companies with subsidiaries in the U.S., exporters, and dynamic tech startups, attended the most important FDI event in the United States. The …
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 12 June, 2019 | Topics: Ambassador, Business, Commercial Affairs, Commercial Opportunities, Doing Business in the U.S. | Tags: Aussenwirtschaft Austria, CEO, entrepreneurship, industry, mentor, SelectUSA, startup, transatlantic relations, Trevor Traina
At the Entrepreneurship Breakfast – at the Wirtschaftskammer- headquarters with co-host Jürgen Roth – Ambassador Traina welcomed the participants, and announced that he will be leading the Austrian delegation, including eight innovative companies, to The Global Entrepreneurship Summit in The Hague on June 4 and 5. The Ambassador will also be leading the largest Austrian delegation on record to the …
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 14 May, 2019 | Topics: Ambassador, Business, Commercial Affairs, Commercial Opportunities, Doing Business in the U.S. | Tags: 3daystartup, Aussenwirtschaft Austria, Austria to Austin, CEO, entrepreneurship, investor, Jürgen Roth, mentor, SelectUSA, startup, transatlantic relations, Trevor Traina, WKOe
Ambassador Traina traveled to the industrial powerhouse of Upper Austria to visit two of the largest Austrian investors in the United States, voestalpine and Miba. Together, voestalpine and Miba employ thousands of Americans in plants from Texas to Wisconsin to Georgia, investing over $1 billion in the U.S. economy, not only investing in American manufacturing, …
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 30 January, 2019 | Topics: Ambassador, Business, Commercial Affairs, Commercial Opportunities, Deputy Chief of Mission, Doing Business in the U.S., Trade | Tags: Aussenwirtschaft Austria, CEO, Christoph Ederer, F. Peter Mitterbauer, Herbert Eibensteiner, industry, investor, Laakirchen, Linz, Matthias Pastl, Miba, Peter Mitterbauer, SelectUSA, transatlantic relations, Trevor Traina, voestalpine, Wolfgang Eder