WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday (Nov 26) selected commerce lawyer Jamieson Greer as his new US commerce consultant, elevating a key veteran of his first-term commerce battle towards China to execute a sweeping tariff agenda that guarantees to upend international commerce.
“Jamieson will focus the Workplace of the US Commerce Consultant on reining within the Nation’s large Commerce Deficit, defending American Manufacturing, Agriculture, and Companies, and opening up Export Markets in all places,” Trump stated in a press release.
Greer, 44, served as chief of employees to Trump’s former US commerce consultant, Robert Lighthizer, the architect of Trump’s authentic tariffs on some US$370 billion value of Chinese language imports and the renegotiation of the North American free commerce cope with Canada and Mexico.
On this function, Greer participated with Lighthizer in all negotiations with Chinese language officers by the signing of a “Section 1” commerce cope with Beijing in January 2020. Below that settlement, China pledged to purchase some US$200 billion value of US items over two years, a purpose by no means achieved, partly because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Greer, who beforehand labored with Lighthizer on the regulation agency Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, on metal commerce treatment instances, left USTR in Could 2020 to hitch the King & Spalding regulation agency in Washington. There, he has represented shoppers together with home producers in commerce treatment instances, export and import compliance and funding safety issues.
Lighthizer referred to as Greer an “glorious selection” for USTR.
“He is aware of the regulation and has nice judgment. He works across the clock and he agrees with and is loyal to the president,” Lighthizer stated in an emailed assertion. Greer “has spent many years getting ready for this chance to guide the commerce problem for the following 4 years.”
Trump had beforehand named Wall Avenue CEO Howard Lutnick to guide his commerce technique as head of the Commerce Division, together with “direct accountability” for USTR.
