Testimony · Administration
Greer at confirmation hearing: a technology coalition of the willing.
In his confirmation testimony, the USTR-designate frames trade policy as supply-chain enforcement and proposes a coalition of like-minded countries to lock out adversary backdoors.
These are the rules of the road, and nobody in the world should buy from you if, in fact, you have a government back door.
Greer's confirmation hearing positions trade policy as a supply-chain enforcement instrument, not a revenue tool. The proposed "technology NATO": the United States, Japan, Australia, Israel, and other capable partners, is the coalition mechanism the doctrine relies on to make U.S. legal architecture binding on operators who want access to allied markets.
The argument runs through every later commercial-diplomacy speech in this file: aligned legal and commercial standards privatize the exclusion of adversary access. Capital reads those rules; host countries can defend them. Tariffs and trade deals are how that alignment gets built into the working day of the global economy.