Nine Representatives Announce Opposition to KORUS
Following a press conference on March 16, 2011, nine Democratic Representatives1, including the Chairman of the House Trade Working Group, issued a statement announcing their opposition to the U.S.-Korea free trade agreement (KORUS FTA). Chief among their criticisms are that the deal would open the U.S. market to North Korean goods, cost U.S. jobs, increase the U.S. trade deficit, make it easier for China to avoid tariffs by transshipping goods through Korea, and devastate the U.S. textile industry.
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1Representatives Michaud, Miller, DeLauro, Sherman, Sanchez, Grijalva, Sutton, Kissel, and Schakowsky.
Press release, including link to video of press conference available here