SOUTH KOREA, THE BARRIER ECONOMY

From: The Boston Globe | Date: March 29, 1987| Author: Tom Ashbrook, Globe Staff | Copyright information
SEOUL - Don't blink, or you might miss the latest trade concession made by the East Asian dynamo that hauled home a $7.5 billion trade surplus from the United States last year.

After July 1, South Korea -- the country that brings you Hyundai cars, Daewoo computers and Samsung video recorders -- will drop its import ban on cranberry juice, lemon juice and, partially, on alfalfa pellets.

In case that's not enough to mollify trade warriors in the US Congress, South Korea is thro...

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