Quote-unquote: Think trade-deficit reduction, not deal-making, USTR urges

Quote-unquote: Think trade-deficit reduction, not deal-making, USTR urges

What they’re saying. Greer: It’s the deficit, not the deal. “Sometimes you have a U.S. Trade Representative, and you say, ‘What’s your goal?’ and they say, ‘I want to have a trade deal with X country and X country by the time I’m done.’ That’s not how I think about it. I have three goals: One, I want to reverse the trend of our global trade deficit in goods, keep it decreasing over time. And second, I want to increase real median household inc…