There's a changing of the guard under way at the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade), the agency tasked with supporting local businesses to access global markets.

Public Eye hears a new head of The Americas is about to start in Austrade's New York office, after former general manager Tony Davis wrapped up four years in the plum role.

With United States President Donald Trump 's 100 per cent pharmaceutical tariffs - labelled "unfair and unjust" by the Albanese government - due to hit parts of Australia's $2 billion-a-year medicines export industry on Wednesday, the new senior executive leader will have their work cut out for them.

But it sounds like they'll be able to put their feet up in comfort at the end of a long day.

While no announcement has been made about

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