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Korean......... Same Old Story

Mike

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U.S. Trade Negotiator Urges Korea to Open Beef Market


Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Wendy Cutler, the chief U.S. negotiator in the Korea-U.S. FTA talks, smiles before addressing members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea at the Hyatt Hotel in Seoul on Tuesday. It was Cutler's first visit to Seoul since the trade pact was signed.


Wendy Cutler, the chief U.S. negotiator for the Seoul-Washington free trade agreement talks, said on Tuesday that the U.S. Congress has made it clear that Seoul must fully open its beef market if the trade pact with South Korea is to be considered.
Cutler made the remarks at a luncheon meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in Seoul hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea and a private sector Korea-U.S. FTA group. Key U.S. congressmen will not approve the trade pact unless Korea opens its beef market, Cutler said.

She said that resolution of the beef issue is needed urgently and she expects that Congress will ratify the deal during the first half of next year. Korea should open its market to all U.S. beef products from cattle of all ages, she urged, since the OIE, the international animal health agency, designated the U.S. a controlled risk country for mad cow disease in May.

American beef is safe, Cutler said, and the bone fragments that were discovered in shipments to Korea were found in less than 10 out of 600,000 boxes. "It is regrettable that some of the shipments violated the import protocol (between the two countries)," she said. "But it is very negligible by any calculation."

Asked about the possibility of additional FTA talks between the two countries, she said that no changes in the agreement are needed, nor should either side seek them. Cutler avoided commenting directly on U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's statement that the deal needs to be renegotiated, but said that the White House believes that the deal will bring significant benefits, including the creation of new jobs.

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PPRM

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I've never had any luck telling my customers, "You'll like it and shut up about it"....

But that is just me,

PPRM
 

Sandhusker

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PPRM said:
I've never had any luck telling my customers, "You'll like it and shut up about it"....

But that is just me,

PPRM

But, if you let somebody give them exactly what the want, everybody will have to do it........ :roll:
 

PPRM

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Sandhusker said:
PPRM said:
I've never had any luck telling my customers, "You'll like it and shut up about it"....

But that is just me,

PPRM

But, if you let somebody give them exactly what the want, everybody will have to do it........ :roll:

Almost.....True Capatalism has some people trying to do even more....

PPRM
 

RobertMac

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PPRM said:
Sandhusker said:
PPRM said:
I've never had any luck telling my customers, "You'll like it and shut up about it"....

But that is just me,

PPRM

But, if you let somebody give them exactly what the want, everybody will have to do it........ :roll:

Almost.....True Capatalism has some people trying to do even more....

PPRM

What we have is corporate capitalism!!!!
 

rkaiser

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But, if you let somebody give them exactly what the want, everybody will have to do it........

And by everyone ---- do you understand that that means every exporting country that has one of three or four mutinational packers?

This World Beef Trust does not want to distinguish any one country. There goal is to "Walmart" or "MacDonald" beef.
 

Tex

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RobertMac said:
PPRM said:
Sandhusker said:
But, if you let somebody give them exactly what the want, everybody will have to do it........ :roll:

Almost.....True Capatalism has some people trying to do even more....

PPRM

What we have is corporate capitalism!!!!


Corporatism should be more accurately defined as Fascism as it is the merging of corporate and state power.-------Benito Mussolini (leader of Fascist Italy during WW2).

We need to worry as much about the Fascists in our country as we do the "Islamo Fascists". They are much more dangerous to our democracy.
 

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