Tánaiste to meet Trump administration officials in US amid tariff uncertainty

Tánaiste Simon Harris is set to pay a visit to the US next week as the fallout continues from Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs will travel to Washington DC, where’s he is due to attend meetings with US secretary of commerce Howard Lutnick.

It comes days after president Donald Trump slapped the EU with 20 per cent tariffs.

Mr Harris is set to hold trade and wider political talks in Washington. He will hold meetings with a number of figures in the Trump administration and the US Congress.

He believes negotiations between the EU and US will involved “give and take”.

Mr Harris has warned that trade relationships are unlikely to go back to the way they were before the so called ‘Liberation Day’.

Can our economy manage it? Of course we can.

“I think we are operating in an environment – after having many years, many decades of free trade and globalisation – we’re operating in an environment where there’s an effort from the United States of America to move…