Jamieson Greer, the nominee to be U.S. trade representative, defended President Donald Trump’s across-the-board tariffs Thursday and vowed to expand agricultural markets to ease retaliatory pain on farmers and to rely on “enforcement” for trade deals with China.
At a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing, Greer, who was the chief of staff for former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, defended the tariff policy less than a week after Trump imposed tariffs on goods imports from Mexico, Canada and China, only to postpone them for a month on Mexico and Canada.
Greer, now a partner at King and Spalding law firm, said the tariffs are aimed at spurring action from the three counties to curtail the flow of fentanyl and migration into the U.S.
