Posted on 03/26/2018 8:59:45 PM PDT by NImerc
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has agreed to further open its auto market to the United States as the two countries prepare to amend their 6-year-old trade agreement following complaints by President Donald Trump.
...It marks the first successful renegotiation of a trade deal for the Trump administration — which used the threat of 25 percent steel tariffs at the bargaining table — and comes as the allies sought to resolve disputes before planned meetings with Kim Jong Un.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Publicity wise, yep this looks like a big win. Reality? Not so much once you read the article.
Our car companies don't sell more than 10,000 vehicles in SK so expanding the number allowed to 50,000 does what exactly?
And the steel quota we have on SK - that remains in place, they're just allowed to sell surplus to other countries who in turn will sell it to us at a higher cost.
I'm a supporter of President Trump, how's this "winning" once you read past the headline?
Heretic!
No more trade welfare for the rest of the world. The United States is tired of carrying the world on its back!
freep tradition not to read article but to guess then comment on guesses.
At least as long I have been on free republic :)
Truth is, I object to how the media creates these terribly misleading headlines and then in the article says something completely different.
In this case, I believe they wrote a deliberately misleading good headline in order to make our President look bad. Here's what I mean: Some will pick up on the headline only and run with it, others will read the article and become even more harsh against the media (as I am.)
All this will do is pit President Trump supporters against each other (those who don't read past the headlines vs. those who actually read the articles and see how misleading the media really is, whether the headline is good or bad.)
So I know I posted at my own peril in pointing out as another poster above me did, what the article actually says vs. the headline however facts are facts.
At the end of the day, EVERYONE who supports President Trump needs to ask themselves the question: If we cannot trust the media when they write a misleading BAD headline, why in the world should we trust them when they write a misleading GOOD headline?
The devil's always in the details, and the media is full of lying devils!!
I’m on my second Hyundai. Good value.
What's the problem with that?
It looks like they will buy Cadillacs at least. Sales up 82% in 2017... Surprised.
http://cadillacsociety.com/2018/03/15/cadillac-korea-set-an-all-time-sales-record-in-2017/
If they don’t reverse their massive sales losses, they may not be able to do so.
http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2018/02/will-end-hyundai-usas-consistent-decline/
My sister had a Buick that went past 350,000 and that was nearly 20 years ago.
My last new car was a Toyota Sienna and I drove it 10 years but only about 90,000. The absolute truth is I never spent one dime on that car other than tires and battery. No hose, no freon, no belt, nothing. The same may be true for American cars, I don't know.
I now own a Toyota Rav4 smaller and easier to manage in old age.
Hyundai offers a 200,00 mile warranty anyone else do that? To be honest I saw a warranty on a windshield that offered lifetime warranty o the engine, didn't catch the make or model. Truth is all cars look alike to me anymore.
“2. Agreement also specifies that South Korea will limit the number of light truck they sell to the U.S. — South Korea hasn’t been selling light trucks to the U.S.”
Maybe because there are 25 percent tariffs on South Korean-made pickup trucks is the reason why South Korea hasn’t been selling light trucks to the U.S. and now the tariffs end 20 years later.
My Hundai is the best car I have ever had. Engine sounds like a watch and the mileage is great. All the cars I have owned: Buicks (which I loved), Fords and a Cougar.
There is a reason these cars are popular - a good reason.
Back in the 1960s, people chortled at the prospect of Americans buying “rice burners” from Japan. They weren’t laughing 20 years later when Japanese cars dominated the U.S. market.
I am not a fan of unibody vehicles.
That would be where. The shell is the car.like an egg.
No frame.
No steel beams the body built upon.
Thus when something other than a yugo hits it it folds up, like a cheep suit.
My wife drives a Kia. Tons of miles, on the cheap.
~W
My son told us we ship LOTS of new Mustangs on the RORO ships to Europe.
Sith Korea .... our ally
Darth Korea .... not
That’s one company that personally hurt when they left...Levi
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