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Trade rep. bearish on completing free trade agreements this year
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Apr 06, 2010 04:26pm |
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| Author | Jordan Fabian |
| News Date | Saturday, April 3, 2010 07:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said this weekend that three pending trade agreements with foreign countries are unlikely to be completed this year.
Kirk said that the agreements were critical for the White House's new focus on job creation, but indicated that more cooperation is needed from labor unions and congressional Democrats before the they can be approved by Congress.
"I don't that we're going to get them all done this year," Kirk said on Bloomberg's "Political Capital" in an interview that aired Saturday.
Asked if he thinks the administration could get at least one of the pending agreements with South Korea, Columbia and Panama finished, Kirk said "I would certainly like to." |
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