William Zarit helps Chinese companies invest in the US, and advises US companies on working in the Chinese commercial environment.
Until mid-2014 Zarit was Minister for Commercial Affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing, overseeing the US Department of Commerce’s trade promotion and trade policy activities in its operations in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang. He is one of only two serving Foreign Commercial Service officers worldwide to have attained the rank of Career Minister, which earned him the lifetime “Honorable” honorific.
Before that posting to Beijing Zarit was Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Operations, for the US Commercial Service, overseeing Commercial Sections in US embassies and consulates worldwide. Prior to that he served as the US Commercial Service’s Regional Director for East Asia/Pacific. He also served as Deputy Senior Commercial Officer in Taipei and Beijing, and Senior Commercial Officer in Kuala Lumpur.