Daily Mail
March 30, 2018
No sooner than President Trump had secured his first major trade deal, the U.S. leader said he could hold it up for awhile.
Trump told a crowd Thursday that he may wait to move ahead on a deal his administration inked with South Korea until planned nuclear talks with North Korea have concluded.
‘South Korea has been wonderful,’ he said, ‘but we’ll probably hold that deal up for a little while, see how that deal plays out.’
Trump said his thinking had shifted on the matter because the trade deal is a ‘very strong card’ and he wants to make sure that ‘everyone is treated fairly’ in the process.
It was a surprise development after the Trump administration said Tuesday that the United States and South Korea had agreed on revisions to their six-year-old trade pact.
Officials said the revised deal widened US access to South Korea’s car market while providing American manufacturers protection from South Korean imports.
Trump had previously called the original South Korea pact a job killer.
This article was posted: Friday, March 30, 2018 at 3:41 am
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