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South Korea needs to make a much better offer to open up its agricultural sector to U.S. imports in talks aimed at reaching a free trade agreement by the end of the year, a U.S. trade official said on Monday.
The third round of Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA) talks in Seattle ended Sunday without producing any practical progress on core issues. While the negotiation result is disappointing, it is not totally unexpected, given the inhospitable conditions of the negotiations.
Members of Congress, solidarity organizations, leaders of the DC-area Salvadoran community, and student and faith-based groups held a press conference to announce the release of a report monitoring the effects of the US-Dominican Republic Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).
Long taken for granted by its much larger neighbors, Uruguay suddenly finds itself one of the main fronts in the struggle between the United States and Venezuela for dominance in South America. Washington is offering a free-trade agreement that would pull Uruguay into the United States' orbit and weaken Mercosur, the regional trade group to which Uruguay and Venezuela belong. Mr. Chávez has countered with attention-getting investments, subsidized oil, acts of charity and a growing alliance with left-wing factions of the ruling Broad Front.
Many U.S. experts think South Korea and the United States are unlikely to produce an agreement regarding the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea in the free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations, the results of a survey showed yesterday.
US Ambassador William Monroe yesterday announced the inauguration of a Bahraini-US Business Council in Washington on Thursday under the patronage of Bahraini Ambassador Nasser Al Balooshi.
Pakistan and the United States will hold the fifth round of negotiations on the draft Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) early next month in a bid to develop consensus on the remaining disputed clauses of the agreement.
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The trade liberalization talks between Korea and the United States have passed a turning point but have made little agreements of substance. The third-round negotiations, which ended a four-day session in Seattle Saturday was another letdown, as each side sought to give the least and take the most.
The third round of free trade talks between Korea and the US saw some progress in key sectors like agriculture and textiles but failed to narrow differences on easing US anti-dumping measures.
