Awwal 07, 1432, Feb 10, 2011, SPA -- President Barack Obama plans to submit the U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement to Congress in the next few weeks, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Wednesday. The Obama administration's top trade official told a House of Representatives committee that the president hopes that lawmakers will approve the deal this spring. The administration says the deal could mean billions of dollars in additional U.S. exports and add tens of thousands of jobs. However, Kirk was not able to satisfy Republicans about progress in competing trade agreements with Panama and Colombia, saying "there remain serious issues," including labor rights, to be resolved before the administration submits the two Latin American agreements to Congress.
