Jamieson Greer on Trade Policy

Jamieson Greer

Role at the time: U.S. Trade Representative, in a prepared statement to the Senate Finance Committee

Response to this claim

USTR determined on June 2, 2026 that each of 60 economies' failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor is unreasonable and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce, and on July 23, 2026, at the President's specific direction, imposed additional duties of 10% or 12.5% as the appropriate action under Section 301 to obtain the elimination of that practice.

“USTR has also investigated its top 60 U.S. trading partners for their failure to adopt and effectively enforce an import ban on goods produced with forced labor. On June 2, USTR published a report on this investigation, which found that these countries' failure to adopt, and effectively enforce, a forced labor import prohibition is unreasonable and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce. I also proposed responsive action to incentivize our trading partners to do more to combat the scourge of forced labor, including the imposition of additional tariffs of 10 and 12.5 percent depending upon the strength of their existing measures to address this issue.”