Congressional Leaders Skeptical of South Korea Trade Deal
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The Korean Free Trade Agreement calls for eliminating tariffs on 95 percent of consumer and industrial products traded between the United States and South Korea.
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The US and South Korea start talks to review aspects of a hard-won free trade agreement.
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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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Lawmakers say the deal may pose a threat to national security.
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The planned resumption next week of six-country talks on North Korea's nuclear programs has fanned speculation about a U.S.-North Korean trade-off that is making both supporters and skeptics of a potential deal uneasy.
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Chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill cautioned on Wednesday that difficult work remained to implement the breakthrough energy-for-arms agreement with North Korea.
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Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), chairman of the House federal workforce subcommittee, is increasingly skeptical of pay-for-performance systems in the federal government. He's also a little frustrated.
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U.S. and South Korean officials   expressed disappointment on Saturday at the progress made   during four days of tough trade negotiations aimed at clinching   a proposed free trade agreement between the two countries.
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Republican leaders in the U.S. House  of Representatives will likely delay a vote on a free trade  pact with Peru until after the November 7 congressional  election, U.S. trade experts said on Wednesday.
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Bill aimed at companies with presence in America could result in trade war, say diplomats.
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Support is growing in Congress for free trade agreements with Peru, Panama and even Colombia because of a deal congressional leaders reached earlier this year with the Bush administration, several Democratic lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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Lawmakers are unlikely to be satisfied with the inconclusive results Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. achieved in Beijing.
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A delegation of U.S. congressmen led by  Republican Curt Weldon has proposed parliamentary talks in  North Korea between the six countries involved in diplomatic  negotiations aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear programs.
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A House committee chairman is trying to show his Democratic colleagues that people in the U.S. are not ready to pay the full costs of fixing global warming.
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An agreement reached on Saturday by  congressional negotiators on post-Sept. 11 intelligence reforms  was thrown into doubt by resistance by some Republicans in the  House of Representatives.
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Chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill  cautioned on Wednesday that difficult work remained to  implement the breakthrough energy-for-arms agreement with North  Korea.
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South Korea is unlikely to resume beef imports from Canada anytime soon despite stricter rules imposed by the exporter because buyers are still not convinced that supplies are safe, a Korean official said on Monday.