[Ip-health] Democratic Urged USTR to Change Course in US-Korea FTA Negotiations

[heeseob nam]

Hoping one possible "deal breaker" of Korea-US FTA.

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/news.asp?formmode=3Drelease&id=3D499

Thursday, March 29, 2007
ADMINISTRATION MUST CHANGE COURSE IN U.S.=96SOUTH KOREA FTA NEGOTIATIONS

WASHINGTON, D.C. =96 As the March 31st deadline for notifying the
U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement approaches, Democratic
Congressional leaders strongly urged the Bush Administration to change
the course of negotiations to re-establish a bipartisan foundation for
trade policy.  The Democratic Leaders are concerned that the current
negotiation strategy is inadequate to tear down South Korea's "iron
curtain" to American manufacturing.

In the attached letter sent yesterday to United States Trade
Representative (USTR) Susan C. Schwab, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA),
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), Ways and Means Committee
Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), and Trade Subcommittee Chairman
Sander Levin (D-MI), expressed their disappointment over the
Administration's failure to seize on the opportunity presented in the
"Bi-partisan Congressional Proposal to Open Korea's Automotive
Markets."

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