It looks like North Korea’s artillery barrage on a small South Korean island had one of those famous unintended consequences: South Korea, faced by a belligerent enemy, decided to let bygones be bygones. A shell-shocked South Korea and a proud America “completed a free-trade agreement that will eliminate most tariffs on exports and solidify one of the nation’s most significant alliances in Asia,” as the New York Times praises the deal. South Korea stared down the barrels of North Korean guns, and America won the war that never was.
Don’t run down to your Hyundai dealer just yet and expect dramatic price reductions. The deal has major hurdles to pass. And at closer inspection, it looks like an oinking pig in a poke. (Read More…)
Posted in Editorials, Korea, News Blog, Trade War Watch
Tagged as Bertel Schmitt, chicken tariffs, dead cows, Free Trade, Korea, pigs in pokes
Tagged as Bertel Schmitt, chicken tariffs, dead cows, Free Trade, Korea, pigs in pokes
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