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Jamieson Greer: “Almost everyone suggested changes to the [USMCA] agreement.”

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US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on the Future of Trade Policy

Published April 7, 2026 | Video Starts at 23:45

But can you give us a general feel for what kind of public reaction you got to USMCA joint Review and what those kind of tenor of comments had in them? Sure. Well, Almost everyone suggested changes to the [USMCA] agreement. So that's our baseline, is that things have to be changed. There were a lot of folks who expressed support for the agreement. (23:45)

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“Trade policy is just one pillar of what the administration is trying to do to revitalize manufacturing in the United States.”
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“We saw manufacturing productivity go up in a huge way last year.”
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“We saw overtime hours for manufacturing go up.”
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“We saw wages for manufacturing non-supervisory workers...went up.”
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“Factory starts and construction is going up.”
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“We finally got to positive growth for February after having been negative since I think in 2023.”
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“If the WTO fails to adjust to how the world trade system needs to change, then the consequences are that the WTO becomes even less relevant…”
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“The United States continues to maintain substantial tariffs on Chinese goods, primarily on a lot of the advanced goods and a lot of the…”
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“Since April, our deficit's gone down by about 17%.”
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“We are making large strides in the United States with respect to domestic self-sufficiency for rare earths.”
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“When the Chinese tightened rare earth supplies, the Japanese started ramping up production, we started ramping up production.”
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“The Chinese came in, flooded the markets with below price rare earths and made it economically non feasible for market based operations to…”
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“We have about nine [reciprocal trade agreements] that are published.”
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“We have a handful of others in the pipeline.”
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“We have language in there about rules of origin and making sure that if we have an agreement with another country that the benefit of that…”
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“We invite the whole world, including, you know, non market economies and big economies that have statist approaches to trade.”
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“It became impossible to have a lot of movement forward or progress.”
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“They have introduced laws like the Digital Markets act and other laws that don't even think about consumer welfare.”
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“It disproportionately affects US Companies.”
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“Our goal is to have an outcome where US Companies can operate without discrimination [in Europe].”
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“If American companies don't have that opportunity, then we will control European service providers in the United States.”
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“There's nothing in the Turnberry Agreement that says anything about [altering my ability to use any domestic laws].”
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“We've recently made some adjustments on our steel aluminum approach in the United States.”
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“President Trump has been clear that he is dissatisfied with a lot of the outcomes of USMCA.”
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“We had significantly more imports of cars from Mexico.”
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“There was essentially a gentleman's agreement that we wouldn't have hard quotas on Canada and Mexico.”
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“USMCA did incentivize more auto production in North America.”
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“His section 232 action has really done a lot of controlling for that issue [of steel and aluminum].”
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“On July 1st, what has to happen is the United States tells Canada, Mexico what we intend to do.”
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“The administration has been quite successful in generating investment in the United States, particularly with branded [pharmaceuticals].”
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“We have concrete in the ground and superstructures going up on new pharmaceutical facilities in North Carolina, in Southern California and…”
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