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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Singapore Asia Pacific World S.Korea, US agree on auto deal to save trade pact Reuters - Saturday, December 4 Send IM Story Print * Deal allows longer phase-out of U.S. auto tariffs * Also address non-tariff barriers to Korean market * Deal expected to boost U.S. exports up to $11 bln By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, Dec 3 - The United States and South Korea struck a deal on auto issues on Friday that had blocked action on their free-trade agreement for three years, potentially setting the stage for U.S. congressional approval. President Barack Obama said the revised deal would boost U.S. exports to South Korea by $11 billion and support at least 70,000 American jobs. "I look forward to working with Congress and leaders in both parties to get this done and to ensure that America competes aggressively for the jobs and markets of the 21st century," Obama said in a statement. Even with the changes announced on Friday, the agreement will likely divide Obama's fellow Democrats, meaning he will have to work closely with Republicans to win passage of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Both the Senate and House of Representatives must approve the deal for it to become law. Supporters hope the changes agreed on this week could lead to action in early 2011. Action on the agreement has been delayed mainly by U.S. auto and beef industry concerns. In a sign of how the deal changed the political landscape, Ford Motor Co. <F.N>, previously one of the biggest critics of the pact, said it now supported it. "These new provisions provide Ford greater confidence that we will be able to better serve our Korean customers. We deeply appreciate the tireless efforts of the Obama Administration and Congress to improve this agreement and open the Korean auto market," said Ford's chief executive, Alan Mulally. One of Ford's strongest allies, the outgoing Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, also voiced support for the deal. "It is important for American manufacturing and American jobs. It is also an important step toward a global rules-based trade system," said Michigan Representative Sander Levin. But Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, said he was "deeply disappointed" his concerns about access to the South Korean beef market were not resolved and would reserve judgment on the deal until they were. Republican lawmakers said approving the deal would provide a critical counterbalance to China in the fast-growing Asian region. It also would help U.S. companies remain competitive with European firms when a European Union-Korea Free Trade Agreement goes into force next year. "This is a big win for American employers and workers," said Representative Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican who will chair the House Ways and Means Committee next year. Camp echoed some of Baucus' concerns on beef. SLOWER PHASE-OUT ON U.S. TARIFFS The two countries signed their original trade deal, which is known as KORUS, on June 30, 2007. It would be the second largest U.S. free trade agreement after the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico in the mid-1990s. The United States exported 7,663 cars and light trucks to South Korea in 2009, while it imported 476,857 from automakers there, according to U.S. Commerce Department figures. Ford and its supporters in Congress complain the lopsided trade is due to South Korean tax and regulatory barriers that KORUS fails to address adequately. They also were unhappy with the schedule for phasing out U.S. car and truck tariffs under the pact. As part of the revisions agreed over several days of talks this week in Columbia, Maryland, South Korea will let the United States keep a 2.5 percent tariff on Korean-built cars for five more years, rather than cut it immediately. The new supplement agreement allows 25,000 cars per U.S. automaker to qualify for entry into the South Korean market based on U.S. safety standards. That is about four times the amount agreed to under the deal struck in 2007. It also allows the United States to keep a 25 percent tariff on trucks until the eighth year, instead of beginning to reduce it in the first year. The United States will still have to eliminate the duty in year 10 of the pact. South Korea is no longer required to eliminate immediately its 8 percent tariff on U.S. auto imports, but will reduce it to 4 percent for four years before eliminating it. Seoul will still immediately eliminate a 10 percent tariff on U.S. trucks under the revised pact. South Korea was given an additional two years -- until 2016 -- to eliminate duties on some U.S. pork products. "We made substantial progress in our discussions," U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a statement after his final meeting with South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon. Kim said he hoped this week's work would allow U.S. and South Korean lawmakers to approve the trade deal in 2011. South Korea is the United States' seventh largest trading partner and eighth largest export market. Last year, the United States exported $28.6 billion worth of goods to South Korea and imported $39.2 billion of products from that country, for a U.S. deficit of $10.6 billion. The two countries agreed to work with Baucus to address his concerns about remaining restrictions on imports of U.S. beef, but South Korea did not commit to any immediate action, sources familiar with the talks said. 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