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Trump to realign trade power in a few select members of his administration
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SME Times News Bureau | 03 Jan, 2017
US President-elect Donald Trump will consolidate trade policy decisions
in the hands of a few select members of his administration rather than
the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), local media reported
on Monday.
"The core of trade power appears to be shifting away
from the Office of the US Trade Representative, an agency that has led
negotiations on a series of complex trade deals, including the TPP
(Trans-Pacific Partnership) and a deal between the United States and the
European Union," Xinhua news agency cited The Hill, a top US political
website, which also noted that Trump has criticised the USTR for
negotiating bad trade deals.
Wilbur Ross, Trump's nominee for
Commerce Secretary, is expected to lead the charge on trade policy going
forward, with Peter Navarro, Director of the newly-created National
Trade Council at the White House, serving as a liaison to Trump, the
report said, adding that Navarro is expected to "play a more personal
role in negotiating trade policies with countries like China" .
But
there is still "plenty of uncertainty" around whether Jason Greenblatt,
Trump's special representative for international negotiations, would
work with the USTR or supersede that agency's role, the report said.
Sean
Spicer, Trump's senior communications adviser, said last week that the
USTR will remain the principal negotiator on trade deals, but Navarro,
Ross and Greenblatt will also "be part of that process". Trump has not
yet named his pick for the USTR.
"Given the announced structure
of the incoming administration, the USTR may not even be the second-most
important voice on trade, behind Ross and Navarro,"said Phil Levy,
senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, adding the USTR
will "have a difficult time" winning respect abroad when matched against
ministers.
Trump had made trade as a centrepiece of his
presidential campaign and called for dramatic changes in US trade
policy. He had vowed to renegotiate the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and pull the United States out of the controversial
TPP trade deal, but hadn't provided details on what steps he might take.
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