Inside Trade

September 20, 2025

Trump: ‘No changes’ to South Korea deal after Lee meeting

By David LaRoss  / August 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
President Trump said Monday that his face-to-face meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung had spurred “no changes” to a trade deal the two countries agreed to last month despite Seoul’s concerns with “some problems” in it -- and, he said, Korea’s hope to renegotiate its terms in Washington. “I think we have a deal done. They had some problems with it, but we stuck to our guns. We are going to -- they’re going to make the deal...

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