{ "data_version": "1", "schema": "https://whatledto.com/data", "id": "jamieson-greer", "name": "Jamieson Greer", "kind": "person", "url": "https://whatledto.com/who/jamieson-greer", "description": "", "same_as": [], "timelines": [ { "slug": "us-canada-trade-war", "title": "The US–Canada Trade War: From the Fentanyl Tariffs to Section 338 and Dollar-for-Dollar Retaliation", "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war", "json": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war.json", "role": "U.S. trade representative who says technical talks continue but the United States is not inclined to return to zero tariffs.", "entries": 6, "updated_at": "2026-10-14T06:23:01.265281+00:00" }, { "slug": "us-tariff-refund-litigation", "title": "IEEPA Tariff Refunds: From the Supreme Court Ruling to the Console Lawsuits", "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-tariff-refund-litigation", "json": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-tariff-refund-litigation.json", "role": "U.S. Trade Representative asked by six senators what the administration would do to make consumers whole for illegal IEEPA tariffs.", "entries": 1, "updated_at": "2026-10-14T04:35:35.915350+00:00" } ], "entries": [ { "timeline": "us-canada-trade-war", "id": 1997, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n1997", "date": "2026-10-08", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Greer says United States will talk if Canada agrees to its terms", "summary": "U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the United States was holding to its position in talks with Canada. He said U.S. officials were ready to talk when Canada wanted to reach agreement.", "type": "response", "entities": [ "Jamieson Greer", "Office of the United States Trade Representative", "Government of Canada", "United States" ], "parties": [ "jamieson-greer", "office-of-the-united-states-trade-representative", "government-of-canada", "united-states" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.aol.com/articles/ustr-greer-says-us-holding-115902000.html", "outlet": "Reuters via AOL", "published": "2026-10-08", "quote": "When the Canadians want to get to yes, obviously we'll be there ready to talk" } ] }, { "timeline": "us-canada-trade-war", "id": 1819, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n1819", "date": "2026-10-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Greer says Washington is open to a Canada deal but 'not inclined to go to zero tariffs'", "summary": "U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said technical talks with Canada were continuing but that a handful of outstanding issues were quite difficult to resolve, speaking as the G20 trade ministers' meeting closed in Milwaukee. He said the Trump administration was open to a deal but not inclined to go to zero tariffs, and that the question was whether Canada would say yes on some of the issues. Asked whether Washington was consulting U.S. automakers about a 50 percent tariff on Canada's auto sector on January 1 absent a deal, Greer said U.S. trade policy was focused on re-shoring manufacturing.", "type": "response", "entities": [ "Jamieson Greer", "Office of the United States Trade Representative", "Government of Canada" ], "parties": [ "jamieson-greer", "office-of-the-united-states-trade-representative", "government-of-canada" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/g20-trade-ministers-holding-second-080018652.html/", "outlet": "The Canadian Press via Yahoo Finance", "published": "2026-10-01", "quote": "“We certainly have technical talks with the Canadians. The reality is there are a handful of outstanding issues that are quite difficult to resolve.”" } ] }, { "timeline": "us-canada-trade-war", "id": 1565, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n1565", "date": "2026-09-25", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Greer says United States has no urgency for a Canada trade deal", "summary": "Jamieson Greer said Donald Trump was comfortable with the United States' position on Canada. Greer said there was no urgency on the U.S. side to conclude a trade deal with Canada.", "type": "response", "entities": [ "Jamieson Greer", "Donald Trump", "Office of the United States Trade Representative", "Canada", "United States" ], "parties": [ "jamieson-greer", "donald-trump", "office-of-the-united-states-trade-representative", "canada", "united-states" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/12072973/trump-comfortable-canada-trade-talks-greer/", "outlet": "Global News", "published": "2026-09-25", "quote": "President Trump is comfortable with where we are on Canada." }, { "url": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-trade-czar-says-sees-150545269.html", "outlet": "The Canadian Press via Yahoo Finance", "published": "2026-09-25", "quote": "There’s no urgency on our side, I will say." } ] }, { "timeline": "us-tariff-refund-litigation", "id": 1548, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-tariff-refund-litigation#n1548", "date": "2026-09-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Six senators ask Greer about consumer IEEPA tariff refunds", "summary": "Six senators wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer seeking information about steps the administration would take to make consumers whole for illegal IEEPA tariffs. The senators asked whether the administration had considered consumer restitution, tax relief, or direct payments.", "type": "response", "entities": [ "Elizabeth Warren", "Martin Heinrich", "Sheldon Whitehouse", "Richard Blumenthal", "Bernie Sanders", "Cory Booker", "Jamieson Greer", "Office of the United States Trade Representative" ], "parties": [ "elizabeth-warren", "martin-heinrich", "sheldon-whitehouse", "richard-blumenthal", "bernie-sanders", "cory-booker", "jamieson-greer", "office-of-the-united-states-trade-representative" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.warren.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026.09.21-Letter-to-USTR-re-Tariff-Refunds.pdf", "outlet": "U.S. Senate letter", "published": "2026-09-21", "quote": "Given these concerns, we write to seek information about what steps, if any, the Administration will take to make consumers whole for the illegal IEEPA tariffs—and, if President Trump’s replacement tariffs are also struck down, for those tariffs as well." }, { "url": "https://www.insidetrade.com/daily-news/democrats-press-greer-consumer-refunds-ieepa-new-tariffs", "outlet": "Inside U.S. Trade", "published": "2026-09-22", "quote": "In a Sept. 21 letter to Greer, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sanders said the..." } ] }, { "timeline": "us-canada-trade-war", "id": 850, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n850", "date": "2026-08-22", "date_precision": "day", "title": "50 percent tariffs take effect on about $20 billion of Canadian goods; Carney: 'they asked too much and offered too little'", "summary": "The Section 338 duties started at midnight on roughly $20 billion of exports including wine, furniture, dairy, cement, clothing and hockey equipment, about 4 percent of what Canada sells to the United States. At a press conference Carney promised dollar-for-dollar retaliation from September 8, concentrated in steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper and electronics, and when asked why it felt like going to war, said 'because we were attacked'. The Canadian dollar fell on Monday.", "type": "regulatory", "entities": [ "Mark Carney", "Donald Trump", "Jamieson Greer" ], "parties": [ "mark-carney", "donald-trump", "jamieson-greer" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/22/us-canada-trade-talks-collapse-ushering-in-wave-of-new-tariffs.html", "outlet": "CNBC", "published": "2026-08-22", "quote": "The U.S. imposed 50% tariffs on some Canadian products on Saturday after trade talks between the two countries fell apart on Friday." }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/22/us-canada-trade-talks-collapse-ushering-in-wave-of-new-tariffs.html", "outlet": "CNBC", "published": "2026-08-22", "quote": "\"They asked too much and offered too little,\" he said, adding that Canada had been willing to drop its remaining retaliatory tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos if the United States lowered its own." }, { "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-canada-tariffs-carney-rcna593510", "outlet": "NBC News", "published": "2026-08-22", "quote": "Asked at the news conference why it felt like Carney was “going to war,” the prime minister responded, “Because we were attacked.”" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/24/canada-us-trade-war-deal.html", "outlet": "CNBC", "published": "2026-08-24", "quote": "The Canadian dollar dropped on Monday morning after trade talks between Ottawa and Washington fell apart, leaving both sides facing higher prices on a wide array of imported goods and threatening Canada's economic growth." }, { "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2026/08/canada-announces-targeted-countermeasures-and-substantive-support-for-workers-and-businesses-in-response-to-us-tariffs.html", "outlet": "Department of Finance Canada", "published": "2026-08-25", "quote": "Following the U.S. decision to impose a 50 per cent tariff on $27.6 billion of Canadian goods effective August 22, Minister Champagne confirmed today that Canada will match the new U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar, rate for rate, with additional Canadian tariffs on U.S. goods." } ] }, { "timeline": "us-canada-trade-war", "id": 849, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n849", "date": "2026-08-21", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Talks collapse at the deadline: Carney walks away from 'a bad deal'; Greer says Canada declined to finalize", "summary": "Minutes before midnight Carney suspended negotiations and recalled his team, saying last-minute U.S. changes were unfair and uneconomic. He later named the sticking points: no tariff relief for trucks and a dispute over Canadian content in vehicles, U.S. language restricting Canada's other trade deals, and demands touching French-language and cultural protections. Greer said the deal on the table cut steel, aluminum, auto and lumber tariffs and that Canada had walked back commitments.", "type": "announcement", "entities": [ "Mark Carney", "Jamieson Greer", "Dominic LeBlanc" ], "parties": [ "mark-carney", "jamieson-greer", "dominic-leblanc" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations", "outlet": "Prime Minister of Canada", "published": "2026-08-21", "quote": "As a result, this evening, I have decided to suspend trade negotiations with the U.S. and have directed Canada’s negotiators to return to Ottawa." }, { "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations", "outlet": "Prime Minister of Canada", "published": "2026-08-21", "quote": "However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal." }, { "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/economy/us-canada-trade", "outlet": "CNN", "published": "2026-08-22", "quote": "“Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said early Saturday in a post on X. He said the deal included “significant tariff reductions on steel, aluminum, autos, and lumber,” as well as “a historic economic and national security partnership.” “Despite the U.S. offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market, new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days,” Greer said." }, { "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/12031459/united-states-canada-trade-talks-issues/", "outlet": "Global News", "published": "2026-08-22", "quote": "The prime minister said Saturday the two sides disagreed over “the treatment of Canadian content” in vehicles, while the United States was only willing to agree to a trade deal on cars and would not extend it to medium or heavy vehicles like trucks." }, { "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/12031459/united-states-canada-trade-talks-issues/", "outlet": "Global News", "published": "2026-08-22", "quote": "“The U.S. introduced, in the last hours, efforts to restrict our ability to have other trade deals,” Carney said Saturday." } ] }, { "timeline": "us-canada-trade-war", "id": 846, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-canada-trade-war#n846", "date": "2026-07-01", "date_precision": "day", "title": "USMCA joint review: the United States declines to renew the agreement", "summary": "At the six-year review required by the agreement, the three countries met virtually and the United States refused to confirm a 16-year extension, leaving USMCA in force but on annual reviews and putting its future on the negotiating table. Canada and Mexico both backed extension. Greer said the U.S. would keep working with both to address the agreement's shortcomings and the trade deficits.", "type": "regulatory", "entities": [ "Jamieson Greer", "Office of the United States Trade Representative" ], "parties": [ "jamieson-greer", "office-of-the-united-states-trade-representative" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://ustr.gov/about/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2026/july/ambassador-greer-issues-statement-usmca-joint-review", "outlet": "Office of the U.S. Trade Representative", "published": "2026-07-01", "quote": "In accordance with the Agreement, the United States, Mexico, and Canada met virtually today to discuss the operation of the USMCA. The United States did not agree to renew the USMCA in its current form. As a result, the USMCA is not renewed. 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