Greer: Tariff exemptions possible because trade deals reached ‘critical mass’

The Trump administration is enacting tariff exemptions for goods like coffee and bananas that are not available domestically because it has reached a “critical mass” of bilateral trade deals, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Friday, touting new agreements with four Latin American countries and a pact with Switzerland as crucial steps. “With the deals from the summer with the [European Union] and the [United Kingdom], with the president’s successful sweep through Asia where we closed some full agreements, had...