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>From The Detroit
News: <a href="http://www.detnews.com/article/20100719/AUTO01/7190407/1361/Two-senators-urge--hard-bargain--with-South-Korea-on-autos#ixzz0uArpc68t"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">http://www.detnews.com/article/20100719/AUTO01/7190407/1361/Two-senators-urge--hard-bargain--with-South-Korea-on-autos#ixzz0uArpc68t</span></a></span></p>
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<h1>Two senators urge 'hard bargain' with South Korea on autos</h1>
<h4>David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau</h4>
<p><i>Washington</i> -- Two U.S. senators urged the Obama administration to "<a href="http://www.detnews.com/article/20100719/AUTO01/7190407/1361/Two-senators-urge--hard-bargain--with-South-Korea-on-autos" target="_blank">drive</a> a hard bargain"
with South Korea
to open the country to auto imports. </p>
<p>Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, wrote <a href="http://www.detnews.com/article/20100719/AUTO01/7190407/1361/Two-senators-urge--hard-bargain--with-South-Korea-on-autos" target="_blank">President Barack Obama<span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/MARCJA%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" name="itxt-icon-0" width="10" border="0" height="10"></span></span></a>
today demanding the administration take a tough stand in talks to make changes
to win congressional approval of the long-stalled Korea Free Trade Agreement. </p>
<p>"We believe the Administration must focus on <a href="http://www.detnews.com/article/20100719/AUTO01/7190407/1361/Two-senators-urge--hard-bargain--with-South-Korea-on-autos" target="_blank">driving</a> a hard bargain with
Korea -- one that shows success in gaining market access while combating unfair
trade practices, and provide a new framework that gives confidence to American
producers and manufacturers that global trade deals produce jobs and better
living conditions at home and abroad," the senators wrote. </p>
<p>Both senators are on the President's Export
Council. Obama this month named three Michigan CEOs, including Ford CEO Alan
Mulally to the council. Ford has urged changes to the agreement to open the
Korean market to more U.S.
imports. </p>
<p>Last month, Obama said his administration would launch new talks with South Korea aimed at resolving those differences
before he visits South Korea
in November; he wants to submit an agreement to Congress soon thereafter. </p>
<p>Ford said the South Korean government "has a long history of actively
intervening in the market to exclude imports." </p>
<p>"A well-negotiated U.S.-Korea Free Trade agreement," it said,
"represents the last, best chance to open the Korean market to imported <a href="http://www.detnews.com/article/20100719/AUTO01/7190407/1361/Two-senators-urge--hard-bargain--with-South-Korea-on-autos" target="_blank">automobiles</a>." </p>
<p>Most U.S.
automakers have opposed the agreement negotiated under the Bush administration
because it did little to open the closed auto market. <a href="http://www.detnews.com/article/20100719/AUTO01/7190407/1361/Two-senators-urge--hard-bargain--with-South-Korea-on-autos" target="_blank">General Motors<span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/MARCJA%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" name="itxt-icon-0" width="10" border="0" height="10"></span></span></a>
Co. has stayed neutral, because of its South Korean unit GM Daewoo, which is
the fourth-largest automaker there. </p>
<p><i><a href="mailto:dshepardson@detnews.com">dshepardson@detnews.com</a>
(202) 662-8735</i> </p>