Citing KORUS, Heitkamp faults administration for 'segregating' trade, foreign policy

The Trump administration is heading in the wrong direction in how it separates trade and foreign policy, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) said on Tuesday, lamenting U.S. threats to terminate the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement. “I do not believe long-term that you can segregate your trade relationship from your foreign policy,” Heitkamp said during a Dec. 5 event hosted by the Korea Economic Institute of America. “Those trade relationships build the cohesiveness, they build the relationships, they build the advantage...