America's trade representative under Donald Trump. In early 2026 Mr Greer confirmed that India would retain protections in some "key areas", including agriculture, as part of a trade deal that reduced America's reciprocal tariff on Indian goods from 25% to 18%.
Mr Greer has defended America's proposed critical-minerals club—a group of allied countries setting price floors for minerals traded within the bloc—telling The Economist: "I'd rather get inefficient production from a bunch of market economies I'm generally aligned with than efficient production from a country I'm not strategically aligned with."
It would save me a lot of time if you just gave up and went mad now.