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Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in Vienna

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 …

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

Theodore R. Bromund about Transatlantic Relations

Expert speaker Theodore R. Bromund from The Heritage Foundation discussed changes and continuities in U.S. economic policy under the administration of President Trump. A few hours before he gave a joint interview for the Austria Presse Agentur and the newspaper Kurier.

By U.S. Embassy Austria | 7 March, 2019 | Topics: Economic Affairs, Events, Trade | Tags: Aussenwirtschaft Austria, foreign policy, industry, President Trump, SelectUSA, transatlantic relations, Trevor Traina

Ambassador Traina visits Miba and voestalpine

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, …

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

FACT SHEET: Mahan Air’s Support for Terrorism

The United States designated Mahan Air for sanctions in 2011 for providing financial, material, and technological support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), which was designated by the United States in 2007 for providing material support to terrorism. The European Union designated the IRGC Qods Force in 2010, noting the group “is Tehran’s principal …

By U.S. Embassy Austria | 7 December, 2018 | Topics: Fact Sheets, Policy, Trade, Travel & Tourism

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