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 EUR 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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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 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 Pantheon-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.
He primed the Section 301 probe
Greer, the US Trade Representative, told reporters on 23 July that the European Commission's EUR 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 remark became Washington's opening argument the 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 . By 4 August the investigation had produced no formal filing, and Google had lodged no appeal against the fine, leaving Greer's warning as the administration's stated justification rather than a policy that has moved Brussels .