President-elect Donald Trump introduced a slew of nominations Tuesday, together with worldwide commerce lawyer Jamieson Greer to be his U.S. commerce consultant, Kevin Hassett as director of the White Home Nationwide Financial Council and Vince Haley as director of the Home Coverage Council.
In asserting Greer’s nomination, Trump mentioned in a press release that Greer was instrumental in his first time period in imposing tariffs on China and others and changing the commerce settlement with Canada and Mexico, “subsequently making it a lot better for American Employees.”
Greer beforehand served as chief of workers to Robert Lighthizer, Trump’s former commerce consultant who’s deeply skeptical of free commerce. Greet is at present a companion on the King & Spalding legislation agency in Washington. He was not instantly accessible for remark.
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If confirmed as commerce consultant, Greer could be chargeable for negotiating immediately with overseas governments on commerce offers and disputes, in addition to memberships in worldwide commerce our bodies such because the World Commerce Group.
The choice comes after Trump on Monday introduced plans to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada and an extra 10% tariffs on all imports from China as quickly as he’s inaugurated in January.
Trump mentioned the tariffs would stay in place “till such time as Medicine, specifically Fentanyl, and all Unlawful Aliens cease this Invasion of our Nation!”
In the meantime, economist Kevin Hassett was named director of the White Home Nationwide Financial Council, bringing into Trump’s administration a significant advocate for tax cuts.
Trump mentioned in Tuesday’s announcement that Hassett “will play an essential position in serving to American households recuperate from the inflation that was unleashed by the Biden Administration” and that collectively they might “renew and enhance” the 2017 tax cuts, a lot of that are set to run out after 2025.
Hassett, 62, served within the first Trump time period as chairman of the Council of Financial Advisers. He has a doctorate from the College of Pennsylvania and labored on the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute earlier than becoming a member of the Trump White Home in 2017.
