密尔沃基——美国贸易代表杰米森·格里尔周四拒绝明确表示是否会执行最近通过的俄罗斯制裁措施。他告诉《Semafor》及其他两家媒体，官员们计划在本月公布具体被制裁的国家的名单，但最终是否实施这些制裁仍由唐纳德·特朗普总统决定。
MILWAUKEE —- US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Thursday declined to commit to imposing recently enacted Russian sanctions, telling Semafor and two other outlets that officials plan to “name names” this month but it’s ultimately President Donald Trump’s decision whether to enact the levies.
特朗普上个月签署了这项制裁法案。这项立法是他最忠诚的盟友之一、已故参议员林赛·格雷厄姆长期推动的举措；根据该法案，美国政府必须在10月18日前决定是否对那些大量使用俄罗斯石油和天然气的国家实施制裁（最高可对其实施100%的制裁）。
Trump signed the sanctions package into law last month. A longtime priority of one of his most loyal allies, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, the legislation gives the administration until Oct. 18 to decide whether to sanction countries up to 100% over their use of Russian oil and gas. Asked whether the administration planned to meet that deadline, Greer left the door open on where it could land.
当被问及政府是否能够按时完成这一决定时，格里尔并未给出明确答复，表示：“我们确实需要在30天内提交报告并公布被制裁国家的名单，我们会按照计划行事。至于具体采取何种行动，则由总统来决定。”
“Well, we do have to do a report within 30 days — we have to name names — so we’ll be doing that,” Greer said in an interview with Semafor and two other outlets on the sidelines of the G20 trade ministerial. “What kind of action we’ll take is for the president to decide.”
格里尔表示，本周欧盟和印度的官员向他提到了这项制裁措施。他提到欧盟已“大幅转向使用美国的石油和天然气”，并将印度购买俄罗斯石油和天然气的行为描述为“一种类似战时的优惠交易”。这项制裁法案获得了两党的广泛支持；美国议员和乌克兰官员认为这是向俄罗斯施压、迫使其在冬季前结束对乌克兰战争的关键手段。不过，特朗普有时会对俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京表示赞赏，同时也希望与莫斯科达成协议——甚至可能通过放宽制裁来换取俄罗斯释放政治犯。
Officials from the European Union and Indian brought the sanctions up to him this week, Greer said. He added that the European Union has “largely shifted to American oil and gas,” while describing India’s purchase of Russian oil and gas as “really kind of a wartime discount situation.”The sanctions legislation enjoyed broad bipartisan support, with US lawmakers and Ukrainian officials viewing it as a crucial mechanism to put more pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine before the winter. But Trump, who has at times spoken warmly of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is also hoping to cajole Moscow into striking a deal, including by potentially easing sanctions in exchange for releasing political prisoners.
格里尔对欧盟与加拿大之间即将达成的协议表示不屑一顾，称“其实已经没有太多可谈判的空间了”——毕竟两国早已签订了贸易协定（已有10年的历史）。
Greer separately brushed off a pending EU-Canada agreement, remarking that “there’s not actually juice left to squeeze in that” given “they have had a trade agreement for 10 years already.”
“加拿大的经济增长率很低，欧盟的经济增长率也同样很低。据我所知，‘零加零仍然等于零’，”格里尔补充道，“所以双方实在没有太多可以讨论的余地。”
“Growth rate in Canada is pretty low; growth rate in EU pretty low. Last time I checked, zero plus zero still equals zero,” Greer added. “So there’s just not a lot of there there.”
“真正的增长点在美国；消费市场也在美国；企业自然希望把产品销往美国，”格里尔继续说道，“这就是为什么世界上几乎所有其他国家都希望与美国达成协议，都希望与美国总统谈判，以确保自己能够继续在这个市场上开展业务。”
The US “is where the growth is; this is where the consumption is. This is where people want to be selling,” Greer continued. “That’s why almost every other country in the world wants to cut a deal with the US; they want to cut a deal with the president to make sure they can keep playing in this market.”
他还表示，目前很难判断美国是否会进一步对加拿大商品征收关税，因为美国正在努力减少自身的贸易赤字。格里尔透露，贸易部长们将在周四离开前发布一份联合声明，反对将食品作为政治工具（即反对利用食品贸易来施加政治压力），同时还会发表一份关于“产能过剩与生产过剩问题的声明”。
He also said that “it’s hard to say at this point” whether the US might impose tariffs on additional Canadian goods, given the US is “trying to get our deficit down.”Greer revealed trade ministers would release “a joint statement against the weaponization of food,” as well as a statement addressing “excess capacity and production” before they leave town Thursday.
“在场的人基本上都同意这些意见，但可能仍会有一些国家不愿签署相关协议，因此我们最终可能无法形成一份具有共识的正式文件，”他说道。
“Everybody in there is generally in agreement, but you might have a few holdouts that don’t want to sign it, and so we’re not going to have a consensus document,” he said of the latter.