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USTR
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is an agency of the United States federal government responsible for developing and promoting American trade policy. Part of the Executive Office of the President, it is headed by the U.S. Trade Representative, a Cabinet-level position that serves as the U.S. President's primary advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson on trade matters. USTR has more than two hundred employees, with offices in Geneva, Switzerland, and Brussels, Belgium. USTR was established as the Office of the Special Trade Representative (STR) by the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, leads trade negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels, and coordinates trade policy with other government agencies through the Trade Policy Committee (TPC), Trade Policy Committee Review Group (TPCRG), and Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC). Its areas of expertise include foreign direct investment, commodity agreements, trade-related intellectual property protection, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lighthizer
Robert Emmet Lighthizer (; born October 11, 1947) is an American attorney and government official who served as the United States Trade Representative from 2017 to 2021. After he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1973, Lighthizer joined the firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. He left the firm in 1978 to serve as chief minority counsel and later staff director and chief of staff of the Senate Committee on Finance under Chairman Bob Dole. In 1983, Robert Lighthizer was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative for President Ronald Reagan. In 1985, Lighthizer joined the Washington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP as a partner and led the firm's international trade group. On January 3, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he intended to nominate Lighthizer as his U.S. Trade Representative. Lighthizer was confirmed by the Senate on May 11, 2017, by a vote of 82–14. Along wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winder Building
The Winder Building is an office building in Washington, D.C., just west of the White House. It is located at 604 17th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. History It was designed by Richard A. Gilpin, (or Robert Mills), for W. H. Winder, a nephew of Gen. William H. Winder. It was leased as government offices. The government purchased it in 1854 for $200,000. It was originally covered in stucco, which was stripped and brick painted. The windows have been replaced. The building is maintained by General Services Administration and occupied by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, since 1981. It was threatened with demolition in 1974. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. File:Oldwinderbuilding.jpg, The Winder Building File:Washington, D.C. Central Signal Station, Winder Building, 17th and E Streets NW, and Signal Corps men LOC cwpb.04135.tif, Central Signal Station, Winder Building, 17th and E Streets NW, and Signal Corps men References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obama Administration
Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2012 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney to win re-election. Obama is the first African American president, the first multiracial president, the first non-white president, and the first president born in Hawaii. Obama's accomplishments during the first 100 days of his presidency included signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 relaxing the statute of limitations for equal-pay lawsuits; signing into law the expanded State Children's Health Insurance Program(S-CHIP); winning approval of a congressional budget resolution that put Congress on record as dedicated to dealing with major health care reform legislation in 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Tai
Katherine Chi Tai (born March 18, 1974) is an American attorney serving as the 19th United States Trade Representative since March 18, 2021. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she is the first Asian-American to serve in the position. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the chief trade counsel for the United States House Committee on Ways and Means. Early life and education Tai was born on March 18, 1974, in Connecticut. Tai grew up in Washington, D.C., where she attended Sidwell Friends School. Her parents, who are of ''waishengren'' descent, grew up in Taiwan and later immigrated to the United States. Tai is fluent in Mandarin. In 1996, Tai graduated from Yale University (Pierson College) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. After her undergraduate education, she taught English at Sun Yat-sen University as a Yale-China Fellow for two years, from 1996 to 1998. Tai went on to study at Harvard Law School, where she earned a Juris Doctor in 2001. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayme White
Jayme Ray White is an American public official serving as deputy United States trade representative (USTR). Career White grew up in Seattle, Washington and moved to Washington D.C. to work for his hometown Representative Jim McDermott. He later worked for Senator Ron Wyden as his Chief Trade Advisor and led negotiations for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). White worked on Capitol Hill for more than 20 years prior to joining USTR. Biden administration On April 16, 2021, the Biden administration announced an intent to nominate White as a deputy trade representative in the Office of the United States Trade Representative for Western Hemisphere, Europe, the Middle East, Labor, and Environment. The US Senate confirmed his nomination by an 80 - 18 vote on September 22, 2021. He was sworn in by Katherine Tai Katherine Chi Tai (born March 18, 1974) is an American attorney serving as the 19th United States Trade Representative since March 18, 2021. The daughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doha Development Round
The Doha Development Round or Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is the trade-negotiation round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which commenced in November 2001 under then director-general Mike Moore. Its objective was to lower trade barriers around the world, and thus facilitate increased global trade. The Doha Agenda began with a ministerial-level meeting in Doha, Qatar in 2001. The aim was to put less developed countries' priorities at heart. The needs of the developing countries were the core reasons for the meeting. The major factors discussed include trade facilitation, services, rules of origin and dispute settlement. Special and differential treatment for the developing countries were also discussed as a major concern. Subsequent ministerial meetings took place in Cancún, Mexico (2003), and Hong Kong (2005). Related negotiations took place in Paris, France (2005), Potsdam, Germany (2007), and Geneva, Switzerland (2004, 2006, 2008). Progress in negotiations stalled after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Bianchi
Sarah Bianchi is a political advisor and former investment analyst serving as deputy United States Trade Representative, United States trade representative (USTR). Prior to her confirmation as deputy USTR, she was a senior managing director at Evercore, Evercore ISI, a global investment banking advisory firm. Early life and education Bianchi was born in Atlanta. She attended Harvard University, where she was roommates with Karenna Gore, the daughter of Vice President Al Gore, at Leverett House. Career In a ''New York Times'' profile of Bianchi published on September 4, 2000, her career after her graduation is described to have included work as "an assistant to the associate director for health at the Office of Management and Budget, an assistant director for health policy of the United States Domestic Policy Council, Domestic Policy Council, the senior health care adviser to the vice president and...as deputy issues director" of the Al Gore 2000 presidential campaign, Al Gore's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Pagan
María Luisa Pagán (also spelled as Maria Pagan) is an American attorney who is serving as the U.S. deputy trade representative in the Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva office. Pagan was formerly the Deputy General Counsel of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), giving legal advice about trade negotiations, agreements, and regulations. Biography Born in Puerto Rico, Pagán received her bachelor's degree from Tufts University and a master's degree and Juris Doctor from Georgetown University. After being a legal adviser at the United States Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce from 1993 to 2003, Pagán has been working at the USTR. She had a leading role in several trade negotiation teams. During the Presidential transition of Donald Trump, transition from the Obama to the Trump governments, she served as the acting United States Trade Representative. On January 20, 2021, she once again assumed the position of acting United States Trade Representat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Holleyman
Robert Walker Holleyman II (born February 4, 1955) served as the United States Deputy Trade Representative, with the rank of ambassador, in the Office of the United States Trade Representative in September, 2014 to January 2017. Previously he was the President & CEO of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the trade consortium which represents the interests of major software houses globally. In July 2017, Holleyman joined C&M International LLC, a division of Crowell & Moring, as president and CEO. He was also made partner in the firm's International Trade Group. Biography Holleyman obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and his Juris Doctor at Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was judicial clerk for U.S. District Judge Jack M. Gordon in New Orleans, Louisiana and was also an attorney with Houston, Texas-based law firm Margraves, Kennerly & Schueler. Holleyman was legislative dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Punke
Michael W. Punke (born December 7, 1964) is an American author, attorney, academic, and policy analyst. He is a former Deputy United States Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2017, he became vice president for public policy at Amazon Web Services. As an author, Punke is best known for writing '' The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge'' (2002), which was adapted into film as '' The Revenant'' (2015), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, with a screenplay by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Early life and education Punke was born and raised in Torrington, Wyoming, the son of Marilyn and Butch Punke, a high school biology teacher. He has a younger brother, Tim, and a sister, Amy. They engaged in various outdoor activities in the wilderness like fishing, hunting, hiking, shooting, and mountain biking. When he was a teenager, he also spent at least three summers working at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC ) is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economy, economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.Member Economies – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Apec.org. Retrieved 12 April 2014. Following the success of Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN's series of post-ministerial conferences launched in the mid-1980s, APEC started in 1989, in response to the growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific economies and the advent of regional trade blocs in other parts of the world; it aimed to establish new markets for agricultural products and raw materials beyond Europe. Headquartered in Singapore, APEC is recognized as one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Froman
Michael Braverman Goodman Froman (born August 20, 1962) is an American lawyer who served as the Office of the United States Trade Representative, U.S. Trade Representative from 2013 to 2017. He was Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, a position held jointly at the United States National Security Council, National Security Council and the United States National Economic Council, National Economic Council. In that position he served as the United States Sherpa (emissary), sherpa to the G7, G8, and G20 major economies, G20 summits of economic powers. On May 2, 2013 President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador Ron Kirk as the Office of the United States Trade Representative, U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed on June 19, 2013. Early life and education Froman grew up in a Jewish family in San Rafael, California, San Rafael and graduated from the Branson School. As a teen, Froman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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