Ivanka Trump’s Global Reach, Undeterred by a White House Job Jamie Gorelick, a Washington ethics lawyer who is acting as an independent adviser to Ms. Trump’s trust, said in a statement that since Ms. Trump had resigned from her company, she "has had no involvement with trademark applications submitted by the business." "The federal ethics rules do not require you to recuse from any matter concerning a foreign country just because a business that you have an ownership interest in has a trademark application pending there," she added. Ms. Klem, president of Ms. Trump’s brand, said in a statement, "The brand has filed, updated and rigorously protected its international trademarks over the past several years in the normal course of business, especially in regions where trademark infringement is rampant. Even since her father took office, her own fashion brand has continued to look abroad, filing four new trademarks in Canada and the Philippines, according to a New York Times analysis of trademark records. Earlier this month, China approved three new trademarks for Ms. Trump’s brand on the same day she met China’s president, Xi Jinping, according to an Associated Press report. Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, a left-leaning watchdog group, said that if Ms. Trump’s brand was trying to expand operations or import from other countries, there could be "meaningful interaction" with foreign governments. New York wrote that Before my brothers and I joined the company, our business was primarily a New York-based operation,
