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Obama wants all three trade pacts passed: Geithner

Published Wednesday, February 16, 2011
by Doug Palmer

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday gave the Obama administration's clearest statement yet that it wants to work with Congress to approve three long-delayed trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama this year.

"We'd like to pass all of them, alongside trade adjustment assistance, and we want to do it this year," Geithner said at a Senate Finance Committee hearing.

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