Trump Selects Jamieson Greer as Trade Representative

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.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.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.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.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.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.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of T...