S. Korea-U.S. trade talks draw protest
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Riot police used a water cannon Saturday to break up a noisy but peaceful street protest in downtown Seoul against a proposed free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States.
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US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick raised a host of bilateral trade irritants ranging from exports of oranges to autos with his South Korean counterpart.
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South Korea pressed communist North Korea to redouble its reconciliation efforts Tuesday, as the estranged neighbors opened high-level talks amid rifts over the North's nuclear program and the South's delayed rice shipments.
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Trade tensions flared between the United States and China on Friday, as each brought disputes against the other at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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North Korea urged its impoverished people Saturday to rally around Stalinist leader Kim Jong Il, after Washington rebuffed the communist North's demand that the two sides hold bilateral talks to curb nuclear tension.
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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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North and South Korea held talks on Thursday to mend fences broken by Pyongyang's missile and nuclear tests, buoyed by an energy-for-disarmament deal that President Bush defended as a "good first step".
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South Korea and United States have picked up the pace of talks on a trade deal with an end-March deadline looming, aiming to strike an agreement both countries' legislatures will approve, the chief U.S. envoy said on Friday.
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US and South Korean negotiators have resolved some minor differences as they prepare to wrap up free trade talks ahead of a looming end-month deadline, officials said Monday.
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US trade negotiator Wendy Cutler has arrived in South Korea for new talks on striking a bilateral free trade pact and was met with immediate protests demanding an end to negotiations.
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South Korea rejects its first imports of US beef in three years on health grounds, threatening a key trade deal.
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As the United States and North Korea prepare to discuss normalizing diplomatic relations on Monday, many pitfalls threaten the process, including U.S. promises to discuss lifting sanctions and removing Pyongyang from the U.S. terrorism list.
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North Korea and the United States stood poles apart on Monday as talks on scrapping the communist state's nuclear arms resumed after a year-long hiatus.
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South Korea said Monday it will hold talks with the United States about further easing its restrictions on imports of American beef, in an attempt to resolve a thorny trade dispute.
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The missile test drew an annoyed reaction from the United States and a dismissive one from South Korea.
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The World Trade Organization imposed penalties Friday on U.S. exports ranging from apples to textiles, escalating a trade dispute the Bush administration has struggled to defuse by unsuccessfully urging Congress to repeal legislation aimed at protecting American steelmakers.
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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.