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Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

Extended Interview: USTR Jamieson Greer

Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

CBS News

Cbs, News Commentary, Tv & Film, Politics, News

3.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer joins Face the Nation to discuss the Trump administration's tariff policy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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margaret brennan moderator of face the nation and chief foreign affairs correspondent at cbs

0:35.2

news last week i spoke with u.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer.

0:39.5

Here's our conversation.

0:41.7

And we're joined now by United States Trade Representative Jameson Greer.

0:45.6

Ambassador, good to have you here.

0:47.2

Great to be here. Thank you.

0:48.4

So the president signed this executive order on Thursday, raises tariff rates on about 70 countries. Should we expect those to be negotiated

0:56.2

down in the coming days? I don't think they will be in the coming days. I think a lot of these,

1:02.0

well, I know a lot of these are set rates pursuant to deals. Some of these deals are announced. Some are not.

1:07.9

Others depend on the level of the trade deficit or surplus we may have with the country.

1:12.3

So these tariff rates are pretty much set.

1:16.5

I expect, I do have my phone blowing up.

1:19.3

There are trade ministers who want to talk more and see how they can work in a different

1:22.9

way with the United States.

1:24.8

But I think that we're seeing truly the contours of the president's tariff

1:28.8

plan right now with these rates. I was reading some interviews you had given, and you said at

1:33.5

some point the president's view is maybe a tariff is better than a deal. Are you saying there

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