WASHINGTON — Last week, Ambassador Jamieson Greer joined the FT News Briefing podcast with Financial Times reporter Aime Williams to discuss how America First Trade is delivering results for American workers and their families. During the conversation, Ambassador Greer highlighted the successes of President Trump’s trade program in revitalizing America’s industrial base, safeguarding our supply chains, and advancing the interests of American workers and businesses.
Listen to the full podcast here and read the transcript here.
Tariffs are Supercharging American Manufacturing: “We’re on a net positive in 2026 for manufacturing jobs in the United States. It’s over 30,000… We see the manufacturing productivity going up. So all of those indicators that we’re looking at for manufacturing are positive and going in the right direction.”
America First Trade is Protecting Domestic Supply Chains: “When I go out into the country and I talk to the small business person, I talk to the farmer, I talk to these folks, most of them tell me, we understand what you’re doing. We know we have to reshore. We’re now doing a third shift, or we’re hiring again.”
The United States is Ensuring More Balanced Trade with China: “One of the things that we have set up with China is what we call the Board of Trade, and we are right now doing an exercise with our Chinese counterparts to identify a set of goods that we can trade between us, imports and exports that are non-sensitive, where we get balanced trade.”
Canada Walked Away from a Near-Final Deal to Continue its Retaliation Against U.S. Commerce: “The United States made commitments to change things in a material, important way for them. It was a real negotiation with real outcomes and a lot of real benefit for both sides… For us, we’re just putting additional fees on foreign goods made by foreign workers in foreign countries. That’s all a tariff is. It’s just business for us, and Canada’s the only country that’s really decided that they want to [retaliate].”
The Tools May Change, but America First Trade Policy Remains the Same: “We have our trade policy and we’re going to pursue it. If we can accommodate you in some areas, we will. But first and foremost, we’re America First, and in our view, we have lost so much of our industry over the years.”
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