Wyden: Greer called AGOA ‘a giveaway’

Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. Trade Representative, has called the African Growth and Opportunity Act “a giveaway” and suggested that trade-preference programs like AGOA are not beneficial to the U.S. because they are “non-reciprocal,” according to Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden (D-OR). In questions for the record following Greer’s confirmation hearing before Finance last week, Wyden cited “meetings with staff” in asserting that Greer had “remarked that preference programs do not seem to have...