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House Subcommittee hearing focuses on American trade enforcement

American trade enforcement priorities are a focus of the new Congress.

During a House Ways & Means subcommittee hearing Tuesday morning, former Trump Administration Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish testified there’s a need for strong trade enforcement to protect the economic and national security interests of the United States.

“Countries around the world engage in trade policies and practices that harm American companies, workers, farmers, ranchers, and innovators both here in the United States and in export markets.”

National Milk Producers Federation CEO Gregg Doud served as Chief Ag Negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative during Trump’s first term and called out Canada during his testimony.

“Through manipulative tariff rate quota policies and a systemic circumvention of USMCA’s dairy protein export disciplines, Canada has cheated U.S. exporters out of the market access benefits promised to them under the agreements and has tried to dispose of growing volumes of artificially low-priced dairy protein into global markets.”

He says the 2026 USMCA review represents a critical opportunity to ensure Canada reforms its underhanded practices.

Doud and Gerrish also singled out the European Union and China as unfair trading partners during the trade enforcement hearing.