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Jamieson Greer: “Countries are agreeing that we can keep 15, 20, whatever…”

Featuring: Jamieson Greer, U.S. Trade Representative | National

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US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on the Future of Trade Policy

Published | Video Starts at 32:31

Obviously there's leak around the edges sometime. We now have a section 301 to address it. In a lot of our agreements on reciprocal trade, this is quite kind of blunt force, but Countries are agreeing that we can keep 15, 20, whatever percent tariff on them really did control for this issue or the spillover of it. And they in turn are agreeing to open their markets as much as possible to us. (32:31–32:41)

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Asserts that countries have agreed to allow the U.S. to maintain tariffs to control overcapacity issues.

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