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
