Somehow this seems like a disconnect to me. U.S. and Korean companies working together and trading:
General Motors Corp. on Monday named LG Chem Ltd. of South Korea as the lithium-ion battery supplier for its Chevrolet Volt electric car, and the automaker also announced the seeds of what could become a battery development and manufacturing center in Michigan.
LG Chem will make the battery cells in Korea and ship them to the U.S., where they will be assembled into packs at an unspecified GM factory in Michigan, both companies said at the North American International Auto Show.
But the U.S. and Korea fighting over trade:
[Hillary] Clinton argued that some provisions [of the Korea-U.S. FTA], including those concerning the services sector, could help U.S. companies. But the Bush administration failed to reach a fair trade agreement involving automobile sales, she noted. ``U.S. trade representatives failed to secure fair trade conditions related to automobiles, trucks and other products.''
