Jamieson Greer
United States Trade Representative who called the EU's Google fine a source of massive uncertainty for US exports.
Jamieson Greer said on 23 July 2026 that the EU's €890m Google fine "creates massive uncertainty for U.S. exports", a day before Donald Trump ordered a Section 301 probe into EU digital rules.
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Why is the US Trade Representative calling the EU's Google fine a threat to American exports?
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Called the Google fine a source of massive uncertainty for US exports
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Jamieson Greer is the 20th United States Trade Representative, confirmed by the Senate on 27 February 2025.
He served in the US Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps, including a deployment to Iraq, then as chief of staff to USTR Robert Lighthizer during President Trump's first term, where he worked on China tariffs and the USMCA negotiations, before becoming a partner at a Washington trade law firm. He holds a JD from the University of Virginia and a joint Master's in Global Business Law from Sciences Po and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
His first-term experience negotiating tariffs and trade agreements against China now underpins his role leading Washington's pushback against EU digital regulation, which the administration treats as a comparable threat to American exporters.
Section 301 probe follows fine remarks
Greer told reporters on 23 July that the European Commission's €890 million fine on Google "creates massive uncertainty for U.S. exports", framing the penalty as an attack on American industry rather than a lawful competition ruling.
His warning became Washington's opening argument the very next day, when the White House cited the same complaint to justify opening a Section 301 trade investigation, threatening tariffs on Nokia, Airbus and Volkswagen unless Brussels changed course . The Commission has dismissed the pressure and kept its Digital Markets Act enforcement timetable unchanged, leaving Greer's rhetoric as the administration's stated justification rather than a policy that has moved Brussels.