Office of the United States Trade Representative

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is the United States government agency responsible for developing and recommending United States trade policy to the President of the United States.

Office of the United States Trade Representative

Seal of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Flag of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Agency overview
Formed	1962
Preceding agency	Office of the Special Trade Representative
Headquarters	Winder Building 600 17th St. NW Washington, D.C.
Employees	200
Annual budget	$54 million (FY 2016)
Agency executives	Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative Vacant, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Vacant, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Vacant, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (Geneva) Vacant, Chief Agriculture Negotiator
Parent agency	Executive Office of the President of the United States
Website	www.ustr.gov

  Priority Foreign Country

  Priority Watch List

  Watch List

  Section 306 Monitoring

  Out-of-Cycle Review/Status Pending

It makes trade negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels, and coordinating trade policy within the government through the interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) and Trade Policy Review Group (TPRG).

List of United States Trade Representatives

Portrait	Officeholder	Term start	Term end	President
	Christian Herter	December 10, 1962	December 30, 1966	John F. Kennedy
				Lyndon Johnson
	William Roth	March 24, 1967	January 20, 1969
	Carl Gilbert	August 6, 1969	September 21, 1971	Richard Nixon
	William Eberle	November 12, 1971	December 24, 1974
	Frederick Dent	March 26, 1975	January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
	Robert Strauss	March 30, 1977	August 17, 1979	Jimmy Carter
	Reubin Askew	October 1, 1979	December 31, 1980
	Bill Brock	January 23, 1981	April 29, 1985	Ronald Reagan
	Clayton Yeutter	July 1, 1985	January 20, 1989
	Carla Hills	February 6, 1989	January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
	Mickey Kantor	January 22, 1993	April 12, 1996	Bill Clinton
	Charlene Barshefsky Acting: 1996–1997	April 12, 1996	January 20, 2001
	Robert Zoellick	February 7, 2001	February 22, 2005	George W. Bush
	Peter Allgeier Acting	February 23, 2005	May 16, 2005
	Rob Portman	May 17, 2005	May 29, 2006
	Susan Schwab	June 8, 2006	January 20, 2009
	Peter Allgeier Acting	January 21, 2009	March 17, 2009	Barack Obama
	Ron Kirk	March 18, 2009	March 15, 2013
	Demetrios Marantis Acting	March 15, 2013	May 23, 2013
	Miriam Sapiro Acting	May 23, 2013	June 21, 2013
	Michael Froman	June 21, 2013	January 20, 2017
	Maria Pagan Acting	January 20, 2017	March 1, 2017	Donald Trump
	Stephen Vaughn Acting	March 2, 2017	May 15, 2017
	Robert Lighthizer	May 15, 2017	January 20, 2021
	Maria Pagan Acting	January 20, 2021	March 17, 2021	Joe Biden
	Katherine Tai	March 18, 2021	Incumbent

Other websites

• USTR website
• Office of the United States Trade Representative in the Federal Register