The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources dismissed suggestions Thursday that Seoul had reached a separate trade deal on coal with the United States, following comments by President Donald Trump about striking deals with several countries, including Korea, to boost U.S. coal exports.
During the Champion of Coal event at the White House, Wednesday (local time), Trump said Washington had recently secured “historic” deals to expand coal exports.
“In just the past few months, we’ve made historic trade deals with Japan, Korea, India and others to increase our coal exports dramatically,” he said. “We are now exporting coal to all over the world.”
2. How is this related to the sub
(1) Tariff & Trade coercion: Trump claimed Korea will be buying American coal because of his Tariff deal but Korea government denies it.
3. My opinion
Is this the reason why Trump administration realized to properly document the deal? So, he could just lie about so-called “agreement”?
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1. Summary
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources dismissed suggestions Thursday that Seoul had reached a separate trade deal on coal with the United States, following comments by President Donald Trump about striking deals with several countries, including Korea, to boost U.S. coal exports.
During the Champion of Coal event at the White House, Wednesday (local time), Trump said Washington had recently secured “historic” deals to expand coal exports.
“In just the past few months, we’ve made historic trade deals with Japan, Korea, India and others to increase our coal exports dramatically,” he said. “We are now exporting coal to all over the world.”
2. How is this related to the sub
(1) Tariff & Trade coercion: Trump claimed Korea will be buying American coal because of his Tariff deal but Korea government denies it.
3. My opinion
Is this the reason why Trump administration realized to properly document the deal? So, he could just lie about so-called “agreement”?