Acting AUSTR for Europe and Middle East Named

Bryant Trick, a career staffer at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, was named acting assistant USTR for Europe and the Middle East. Before this appointment, announced Sept. 5, Trick served as deputy assistant USTR for Korea. The new role covers the EU, the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Before joining USTR, Trick was a foreign service officer in U.S. embassies in Korea, Germany and Ukraine, and was deputy director at the State Department's Office of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein Affairs.