Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Schwarzenegger urges Congress to Act on Trade

Seoul, South Korea (AP) - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asked the U.S. Congress to immediately approve a pending free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, said Wednesday that the agreement is important for Washington's top destination for U.S. exports doubled in five years.

Schwarzenegger said that the South Korean capital, where he took a tour of Asia after a visit to China and Japan. He was accompanied by a trade mission of about 100 leaders of his country. The third main trade partner countries, California.
''There are three trade agreements in the dust in the halls of Congress to collect, in Panama, Colombia and Korea,''Schwarzenegger said in a speech to the U.S. and South Korean businessmen.

Schwarzenegger praised the commitment of President Barack Obama earlier this year has doubled in five years for U.S. exports and cited estimates that the three processes to increase U.S. exports more than $ 10000000000 and can create thousands of jobs.

''If you go to work and if your No. 1 priority is to boost the economy and if you believe in economic freedom, and receive a free trade agreement, so it starts, everyone can go back bekerja''kata him and ask Congress to act.

Assumptions about free trade, which often requires a good hard drive in the United States deepened, as the unemployment variable to sell around 10 percent after the global financial crisis and recession. Proponents, like Schwarzenegger, said that rather than endanger the jobs that really made a pact with the increasing export opportunities.

This is the largest of three agreements between Washington and Seoul. He came to the conclusion of negotiations in April 2007 and signed the agreement three months later. With little progress, however, because in the midst of a change of government in both countries, financial crises around the world and demands that South Korea's major U.S. auto most of the trade.

South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong Hoon, who spoke with the next meeting Schwarzenegger, said the agreement now, thanks to strong commitment from the leaders of both countries - the United States and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak - who met in another context, the peak G - 20 in Toronto in June.

The agreement also requires approval by the National Assembly of South Korea.

Schwarzenegger says California may get permission from South Korea, noted that $ 6000000000 Land of domestic exports of goods last year and is California's fifth largest trading partner.

California, United States and the largest population in this country has been suggested that a high-speed rail network and the use of technology in Asia reveals Schwarzenegger travel examples from three countries.

A''technology use, and hopefully in Korea to provide high-speed trains, and those who develop high speed rail system,''he said later on Wednesday planned in advance.

Asked if this statement is that South Korea supports more than its competitors Schwarzenegger, Rachel Arrezola, a spokesman for the governor, said in an email dia''adalah to view high-speed railway in China, Japan and Korea and hope that every store in California. " '

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