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Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US commerce coverage
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Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US commerce coverage

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By Tycoon Herald 5 Min Read Published November 8, 2024
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Robert Lighthizer, who was US commerce consultant when Donald Trump launched his commerce battle with China, has been requested to take the job once more because the president-elect begins to construct his cupboard workforce.

A number of folks aware of the discussions inside Trump’s transition workforce stated Lighthizer had been requested to return to the highest commerce function though he had lobbied for a special place, together with commerce secretary.

Lighthizer had additionally expressed curiosity in serving as Treasury secretary, however that place will more than likely be provided to a financier, with contenders together with the hedge fund managers Scott Bessent and John Paulson.

However the potential reappointment to the pivotal commerce function of an arch protectionist will make US buying and selling allies, in addition to China nervous, given how intently Lighthizer and Trump are aligned on commerce coverage. Trump has vowed to impose excessive tariffs on all imports into the US and particularly Chinese language items.

Trump had thought-about Lighthizer for commerce secretary however the folks aware of the personnel discussions stated the president-elect was more than likely to supply that job to Linda McMahon, the billionaire co-chair of Trump’s presidential transition workforce.

Brendan Boyle, the Philadelphia congressman who’s the highest Democrat on the influential Home finances committee and a senior member of the methods and means committee that oversees commerce, welcomed the information.

“When Bob Lighthizer was USTR I worked with him on the USMCA [US-Mexico-Canada Agreement]. He was bipartisan in his approach and is well respected on both sides of the [political] aisle,” stated Boyle.

It stays unclear if Lighthizer will settle for the place. Lighthizer didn’t reply to requests for remark. A spokesperson for Trump additionally didn’t instantly reply.

Robert O’Brien, who served as nationwide safety adviser through the first Trump administration and was considered as a robust contender for secretary of state or to serve once more as nationwide safety adviser, this week instructed his non-public sector consultancy purchasers that he wouldn’t be part of the administration, based on one individual aware of the choice. 

Lighthizer was extremely regarded by Trump and was one of many few high stage officers who didn’t endure his wrath throughout Trump’s first time period as president.

As Trump’s commerce tsar, he presided over a turbulent period for world commerce because the administration repeatedly hit its largest buying and selling companions — together with its allies — with steep levies and tariffs on billions of {dollars}’ price of imports.

A former lawyer for the US metal business, he regularly clashed with the Geneva-based World Commerce Group, which oversees worldwide commerce disputes, calling it a “mess” that had “failed America”.

His appointment would additionally sign unhealthy information for Nippon Metal, the Japanese firm that has proposed a $15bn acquisition of US Metal. Trump has already signalled his opposition to the deal, however Lighthizer would virtually actually be a robust opponent of the deal.

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Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US commerce coverage

Lighthizer spent three many years as an lawyer at Wall Avenue legislation agency Skadden Arps, the place he fought imports from China on behalf of the US metal business, together with US Metal. Within the early 2000s, he helped persuade George W Bush’s administration to impose tariffs on metal imports to guard the US business.

Throughout his earlier tenure as commerce consultant, Washington moved away from hanging commerce offers pushed by enterprise pursuits and as an alternative targeted on measures designed to reshore manufacturing and shield American employees. Regardless of this, Lighthizer agreed restricted commerce offers with China and Japan, and up to date the US’s take care of Mexico and Canada.

Writing within the Monetary Instances simply earlier than the US election, Lighthizer blamed free commerce for the lack of American manufacturing jobs and known as the US commerce deficit “alarming”. “Facing a system that is seriously failing our country, Trump has decided that action must be taken,” he wrote.

 

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