Inside Trade

December 7, 2024

Greer in his own words: It’s time to try ‘something else’ on trade

By Brett Fortnam  / November 27, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Jamieson Greer, tapped by President-elect Trump to serve as his U.S. Trade Representative, has looked long and hard at the past 25 years of trade policy -- bilateral relations with China, dealings with World Trade Organization members in Geneva, etc. -- and doesn’t like what he sees. “Well, that was a good experiment,” he said during a Federalist Society event in May 2023. “It worked in some ways. Maybe we should try something different or try something else.” In that...

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