America's Frontline Trade Officials

Since 1974, 4 percent of all former senior White House trade officials have registered, or their firms have registered, with the Justice Department as foreign agents representing foreign governments. This study provides a brief background and history of how the office of U.S. Trade Representatives evolved, and discusses the contemporary issues surrounding USTR as well as profiling American's frontline trade officials who have served at the highest level of USTR since 1974.