Sources: USTR this week to request special session of KORUS joint committee

Bowing to pressure from President Trump to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with Korea, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative this week will ask that a U.S.-Korea free trade agreement joint committee convene a special session to renegotiate the deal even though Seoul has not yet appointed a new trade minister, sources told Inside U.S. Trade . These sources said that a letter to be sent to Korea by USTR this week will refer to the process as a...