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U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY IN IRELAND TO PROMOTE EUROPEAN TRADE TO HELP GROW AMERICAN JOBS

IRELAND –U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans is in Ireland to participate in the U.S.-E.U. Summit and will meet with the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) to discuss ways to increase investment and create a barrier-free transatlantic market to help grow American jobs.

“While developing economies show great promise for American business, our most dynamic economic relationship remains with Europe,” Evans said. “We have to nurture this relationship and continue to adopt policies of free and fair trade that will result in growing American jobs.”

At the U.S.-E.U. Summit, Evans will help foster dialogue between the United States and the European Union about how increasing investment in American goods and services helps create jobs in Europe and the United States. Evans will meet with E.U. Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy to discuss issues of critical importance to transatlantic commerce. Last year, he had a meeting with E.U. Commissioner Erkki Liikanen on the eve of the 2003 U.S.-E.U. Summit to discuss similar issues including the Doha trade talks, security issues, regulatory cooperation, and capital market convergence.

Evans will also participate in discussions with the Transatlantic Business Dialogue, a forum of American and European business leaders, to discuss trade and security issues, defeating the problem of intellectual piracy, setting international accounting standards and WTO issues.

Currently, the United States and European Union have the largest economic relationship in the world valued at almost $2.5 trillion.