SKorea express regret over US lawmakers' free trade push
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South Korea's foreign ministry on Sunday expressed regret over US lawmakers' push for opening the local carmarket in ongoing free trade agreement negotiations.
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U.S. lawmakers could face a vote on  trade relations with Russia this election year if Moscow  finally wraps up its bid to join the World Trade Organization,  the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday.
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North Korea wants the United States to  free its overseas bank accounts and for countries to drop  sanctions imposed after Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon,  South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Wednesday quoted its envoy  as saying.
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South Korea has turned to X-ray machines and a lot of sharp knives to reject shipments of U.S. beef due to bone chips as small as grains of rice, prompting Washington to say Seoul is seeking excuses to turn back imports.
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The prospects for more six-party talks on  North Korea's nuclear programs are gloomy because the United  States has pushed the negotiations to a stalemate, the North's  official KCNA news agency said on Thursday.
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The United States will appeal a World Trade Organization ruling against steep countervailing duties it has imposed on semiconductors made by the South Korean company Hynix, a US trade official said on Tuesday.
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Taiwan said on Saturday it regretted  U.S. comments criticizing the island's planned referendum on  U.N. membership and hinted that Washington should not to give  in to pressure from China on the matter.
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Two IT trade groups, as well as Microsoft, expressed disappointment after the U.S. Senate failed to move ahead with a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would include a higher annual cap on visas for highly skilled workers.
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North Korea, facing a looming deadline in a nuclear disarmament deal, blamed the United States on Monday for hurting the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula with plans to attack the reclusive state.
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South Korea and the United States held talks on Thursday to review labor and environmental standards included in a sweeping trade deal struck earlier in the year in order to help its passage in the U.S. Congress.
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South Korea's president warns influential US opinion formers not to take an aggressive stance on North Korea.
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The rules seem to be the problem. The South Koreans are upset that the rules are too strict. The Americans are upset that the rules are being broken.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic front-runner in the U.S. presidential race, said on Saturday she would oppose ratification of a free trade pact with South Korea because it would harm the U.S. auto industry, among other things.
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A bipartisan resolution has been introduced in the House of Representatives demanding resumption of diplomatic ties with Taiwan in a move certain to upset China and embarrass the Bush administration.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday he would regret a new North Korean missile launch but it would not change the US diplomatic effort to persuade Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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Senior US lawmakers have expressed deep concern in a letter to President George W. Bush over reports the United States seeks to weaken a G8 declaration on climate change.
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The United States on Tuesday accused the  European Union of issuing a "false and misleading" statement  blaming it for the collapse of World Trade Organization free  trade talks.