US: Auto tariff timing hits Korea FTA

Author: just-auto.com editorial team | 3 December 2010

A free trade deal between the US and South Korea is stuck on whether the latter will agree to give the US four or five years to phase out the 2.5% tariff it levies on Korean-built cars rather than cutting the tariff immediately, as Seoul has sought.

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