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2 months ago | 
insidetrade.com | Dan Dupont |Jamieson Greer
This Week In Trade This Week In Trade President Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, could be at his desk in the Winder Building as soon as Tuesday, with the Senate poised to vote and expected to approve his nomination. A vote could come as soon as Monday night. Greer, a trade lawyer who served as USTR chief of staff during Trump’s first term, will have a full plate from day one. Just a sample: Trump’s day-one “ America First ” trade memo tasked...
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2 months ago | 
insidetrade.com | Dan Dupont |Jamieson Greer
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).
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
insidetrade.com | Jamieson Greer
Jamieson Greer, President-elect Trump’s pick to serve as Trade Representative, has begun customary meetings with lawmakers ahead of his official nomination. Greer met on Wednesday with longtime Senate Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the senator said on X . “Enjoyed mtg w Pres Trump’s US Trade Rep nominee Jamieson Greer 2 hear abt his thoughts on trade esp for agriculture & improving the economy,” Grassley tweeted.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
insidetrade.com | Brett Fortnam |Jamieson Greer
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... Not a subscriber?
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
insidetrade.com | Dan Dupont |Jamieson Greer
Jamieson Greer, President-elect Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. Trade Representative, has a long record that stakeholders across the ideological spectrum are picking apart -- finding what they are pitching as indications of what lies ahead for U.S. trade policy. For Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), the ranking member and likely next chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Greer -- chief of staff at USTR under Robert Lighthizer during the first Trump administration -- offers a pathway back to a more...
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
insidetrade.com | Margaret Spiegelman |Jamieson Greer |reports. Greer
Jamieson Greer, chief of staff to then-U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during the first Trump administration, has emerged as a top candidate to lead USTR during the returning president’s second term, according to sources and reports. Greer, a partner at King & Spalding, served under the Trump administration from May 2017 to May 2020.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Christine Savage |Jamieson Greer |Danielle Pressler |J. Philip Ludvigson
On September 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS") issued a proposed rule related to the information and communications technology and services ("ICTS") supply chain that will prohibit certain transactions involving "connected vehicles" and Vehicle Connectivity System ("VCS") hardware and software or Automated Driving System ("ADS") software designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the...
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jamieson Greer |Stephen Orava |Nicholas Paster
Exclusion requests must be filed by March 31, 2025 and granted exclusions would be available through May 31, 2025On October 15, 2024, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) established an electronic portal for companies to submit requests to exclude certain machinery used in domestic manufacturing from the tariffs imposed on imports of Chinese goods under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (“Section 301”).
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jamieson Greer |Adam Harper |J. Philip Ludvigson
The Proposed Rule imposes substantial new reporting, diligence, and compliance obligations for companies in the automotive supply chain On September 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a proposed rule related to the information and communications technology and services (“ICTS”) supply chain that will prohibit certain transactions involving “connected vehicles” and Vehicle Connectivity System (“VCS”) hardware and software or Automated...
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Barry Kamar |Sumon Dantiki |Christine Savage |Jamieson Greer
Effective October 2, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), amended the Export Administration Regulations
(EAR), 15 C.F.R. Parts 730 – 774, to expand the Validated End
User (VEU) Authorization program to include a VEU Authorization
for overseas data centers in certain countries ("Data Center
VEU Authorization").
