<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/27/us/trump-news#jamieson-greer-trade-representative" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/27/us/trump-news#jamieson-greer-trade-representative</a> </div><div class=""><h2 id="post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlL2EwNTdjNjIzLTMwODAtNTBkYi05YjAyLTIzYzg4NWViODBlNA==" class="eoo0vm40 css-15ah5p9"><a class="css-etxl5s" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/27/us/trump-news#jamieson-greer-trade-representative">Trump selects Jamieson Greer as trade representative.</a></h2></div><div class=""><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">President-elect
Donald J. Trump on Tuesday picked Jamieson Greer, a lawyer and former
Trump official, to serve as his top trade negotiator. The position will
be crucial to Mr. Trump’s plans of issuing hefty tariffs on foreign
products and rewriting the rules of trade in America’s favor.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Mr.
Greer is a partner in international trade at the law firm King &
Spalding. During Mr. Trump’s first term, Mr. Greer served as chief of
staff to Robert E. Lighthizer, the trade representative at the time. He
was involved in the Trump administration’s trade negotiations with
China, as well as the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade
Agreement with Canada and Mexico.</p><div class=""><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Before
that, Mr. Greer served in the Air Force, where he was a lawyer who
prosecuted and defended U.S. airmen in criminal investigations. He was
deployed to Iraq.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">“Jamieson
will focus the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on reining in
the Country’s massive Trade Deficit, defending American Manufacturing,
Agriculture, and Services, and opening up Export Markets everywhere,”
Mr. Trump said.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">The
position of trade representative has historically been fairly low
profile, but it has taken on greater importance under Mr. Trump. In his
first term, the office helped wage a trade war against China, imposed
substantial tariffs on its products and negotiated a series of trade
deals.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">In his
next term, Mr. Trump has promised to again make aggressive use of the
government’s authority over trade. On Monday, he said he would impose
tariffs on all products coming into the United States from Canada,
Mexico and China on his first day in office.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">In
a post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said he would use an executive order
to levy a 25 percent tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico until drugs
and migrants stopped coming over the border. In a separate post, he
threatened an additional 10 percent tariff on all products from China,
saying that the country was shipping illegal drugs to the United States.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Mr.
Trump could be using the threats as an opening wager in negotiations.
But they have threatened to disrupt America’s diplomatic and economic
relationships, and if enacted, the tariffs would scramble global supply
chains and impose costs on American businesses including auto
manufacturers, farmers and food packagers.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">The
U.S. trade representative, a cabinet-level official who carries the
rank of ambassador, is charged with carrying out trade negotiations and
resolving economic disputes with other countries, as well as working
with lawmakers, farmers and business owners to shape trade policy. The
representative leads a small agency of more than 200 people that has
offices in Washington, Geneva and Brussels.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">In
addition to carrying out Mr. Trump’s tariff plans, the office is also
likely to play an important role in negotiating trade terms with Canada
and Mexico. In 2026, the countries are set to revisit the terms of the
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trade pact Mr. Trump
renegotiated in his first term to replace the NAFTA.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">It remains to be seen how exactly Mr. Trump will organize the trade policy posts in his administration. <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113511235978420631" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In a post on Truth Social</a> last Tuesday, Mr. Trump said that Howard Lutnick, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/howard-lutnick-trump-commerce-secretary.html" title="">his selection for commerce secretary</a>,
would “lead our tariff and trade agenda, with additional direct
responsibility for the Office of the United States Trade
Representative.”</p></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/27/us/trump-news#kevin-hassett-nec-trump" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/27/us/trump-news#kevin-hassett-nec-trump</a> </div><div class=""><h2 id="post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzI0ZmE1ZTkyLWZiOTItNThhYS1iYzYxLTBjNmM0NWJhMDEwMw==" class="eoo0vm40 css-15ah5p9"><a class="css-etxl5s" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/27/us/trump-news#kevin-hassett-nec-trump">Trump taps Kevin Hassett to lead the National Economic Council.</a></h2></div><div class=""><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">President-elect
Donald J. Trump selected Kevin Hassett on Tuesday to be the director of
the White House National Economic Council, giving an adviser who served
as his top economist during his first term a leading role in steering
his economic agenda.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">As
the director of the N.E.C., Mr. Hassett will work closely with the
Treasury secretary to push forward Mr. Trump’s economic plans, focused
on cutting taxes, increasing tariffs and expanding energy production.
The role is one of the most expansive in the administration and will put
Mr. Hassett at the center of the most pressing policy debates.</p><div class=""><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">“He
will play an important role in helping American families recover from
the Inflation that was unleashed by the Biden Administration,” Mr. Trump
said in a statement. “Together, we will renew and improve our record
Tax Cuts, and ensure that we have Fair Trade with Countries that have
taken advantage of the United States in the past.”</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Mr.
Trump has been rounding out his economic team, having last week picked
Scott Bessent to run the Treasury Department and Howard Lutnick, the
former chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, to lead the Commerce
Department. Those positions, unlike the N.E.C. directorship, require
Senate confirmation.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Mr. Trump also <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/27/us/trump-news#jamieson-greer-trade-representative" title="">selected Jamieson Greer</a>, a lawyer and former Trump official, to lead the Office of the United States Trade Representative.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Mr.
Greer is a partner in international trade at the law firm King &
Spalding. During Mr. Trump’s first term, he served as chief of staff to
Robert E. Lighthizer, the trade representative at the time. He was
involved in the Trump administration’s trade negotiations with China, as
well as the renegotiation of NAFTA with Canada and Mexico.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">“Jamieson
will focus the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on reining in
the Country’s massive Trade Deficit, defending American Manufacturing,
Agriculture, and Services, and opening up Export Markets everywhere,”
Mr. Trump said.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Although
Mr. Trump has considered giving top economic jobs to Mr. Lighthizer and
Peter Navarro, a China hawk who previously served as his trade adviser,
the president-elect instead settled on candidates that some would view
as more moderate.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Mr.
Hassett was an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a
conservative think tank in Washington, when Mr. Trump chose him to serve
as the administration’s top academic economist in 2017. In that role,
he was a vocal defender of Mr. Trump’s tax cuts and trade policies. He
departed the administration in mid-2019.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Since
leaving Mr. Trump’s White House, Mr. Hassett has remained a close
adviser to Mr. Trump, often lending credibility to economic ideas that
many economists view as unconventional. Mr. Trump has called for even
larger tariffs and has promoted tax cuts that some budget experts
estimate could cost as much as $15 trillion over a decade.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">While
he has defended Mr. Trump’s trade policies publicly, Mr. Hassett
brought a more traditionally conservative view of economics to the Trump
administration and has acknowledged that tariffs — Mr. Trump’s trade
weapon of choice — can weaken economic growth.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">Mr.
Hassett advised Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, during his
presidential run. His research has long focused on the potential to
expand economic growth and middle-class earnings by cutting corporate
tax rates.</p><p class="live-blog-post-content evys1bk0 css-h61jh5">When
Mr. Hassett was tapped to join Mr. Trump’s first administration, he
drew criticism from some of Mr. Trump’s supporters because of his work
that argued that <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/us/politics/choice-of-pro-immigration-economic-adviser-riles-trumps-base.html" title="">immigration spurs economic growth</a>.</p></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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