{"id":26376,"date":"2025-09-17T04:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26376\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T04:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:54:08","slug":"david-w-higgins-when-the-us-turns-to-protectionism-irelands-slice-of-the-pie-begins-to-shrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26376\/","title":{"rendered":"David W Higgins: When the US turns to protectionism, Ireland\u2019s slice of the pie begins to shrink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Policymakers here are right to anticipate a slowing FDI pipeline and so must set budgets accordingly\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"when protectionism rises up in the US, it can slash the size of the FDI pie that Ireland and others partake in\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ca19e42a-aaae-485a-b03a-2591e549147d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">when protectionism rises up in the US, it can slash the size of the FDI pie that Ireland and others partake in<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s something I don\u2019t get about the story of Ireland\u2019s economic history. Why were we so poor for so long? The early years of the Irish State have an obvious story. Protectionism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We were embroiled in an economic war with our nearest neighbour amid an era where tariffs were considered normal economic policy. We also adopted laws against foreign ownership of firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Policymakers here are right to anticipate a slowing FDI pipeline and so must set budgets accordingly when protectionism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[943,61,1095,60,43,4162,812],"class_list":["post-26376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cost-of-living","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tariffs","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}