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WASHINGTON, DC - 02/23/05 - President Bush has appointed Peter Allgeier to be Acting US Trade Representative to fill in for Robert Zoellick who has been named Deputy Secretary of State.

An economist, Allgeier (left) served as a Deputy US Trade Representative and has served in a variety of trade-related government postings since 1980.
 
According to sources, the short list for the final appointee includes Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Grant Aldonas; Josette Shiner, another deputy trade representative; Gary Edsen, assistant to the president for international economic affairs; and Robert Kimmitt, former US ambassador to Germany and an executive vice president at Time Warner.

Zoellick is returning to the State Department where he was Undersecretary for Economic Affairs in the administration of President Bush's father, George H.W. Bush.
 
As US Trade Representative he completed negotiations that brought China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization, and successfully completed free trade agreements with Singapore, Chile, Australia, Morcoco, five Central American countries, the Dominican Republic, and Bahrain.

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