Dan Dupont

2 weeks ago | insidetrade.com | Dan Dupont

Editor's note: This is a developing story. President Trump on Wednesday said he would pause for 90 days what he has termed “reciprocal” tariffs for countries that have not retaliated against the U.S. for that new tariff regime while again raising tariff rates on goods from China. The newly imposed tariffs on goods from China will be raised to 125 percent, he said. In a post on Truth Social , Trump tied both moves to retaliation. “Based on the... Not a subscriber?

2 weeks ago | insidetrade.com | Dan Dupont

Editor's note: This is a developing story. President Trump on Wednesday said he would pause for 90 days what he has termed “reciprocal” tariffs for countries that have not retaliated against the U.S. for that new tariff regime while again raising tariff rates on goods from China. The newly imposed tariffs on goods from China will be raised to 125 percent, he said. In a post on Truth Social , Trump tied both moves to retaliation. “Based on the... Not a subscriber?

2 weeks ago | insidetrade.com | Dan Dupont

The top Democrat on the House Ways & Means trade subcommittee wants U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to resign as acting head of the Office of Special Counsel. During a Ways & Means Committee hearing on Wednesday , Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA) told Greer his appointment by President Trump to head the office, which was not announced by the administration, amounted to a conflict of interest and threatened to weaken his position as USTR. The “primary mission” of the Office...

2 weeks ago | insidetrade.com | Dan Dupont

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer have been asked by President Trump to lead trade talks with Japan, Bessent said on Monday. “Following a very constructive phone discussion with the Government of Japan,” Bessent said on X , Trump told him and Greer “to open negotiations to implement the President’s vision for the new Golden Age of Global Trade” with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba “and his Cabinet.” Details on that vision were not disclosed.

1 month ago | insidetrade.com | Dan Dupont

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has tapped Jennifer Thornton, former vice president for trade and international issues at Business Roundtable, to be the agency’s general counsel, and named a slew of other top personnel. Thornton is a lecturer at Columbia Law School and a former trade counsel for the House Ways & Means Committee. She also served a prior stint at USTR, as director of investment and, later, a senior adviser and counsel, mostly during the Obama administration. As Inside...