WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- Tax issues are dogging another of President Barack Obama's nominees, Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, tapped as U.S. trade representative.
CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- President-elect Barack Obama reached into the heart of Texas for his U.S. trade representative nominee, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk.
CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Ron Kirk, the first African-American mayor of Dallas, was asked by President-elect Barack Obama to be the U.S. trade representative.
CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk has emerged as President-elect Barack Obama's top candidate for U.S. trade representative, Democratic officials said.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Rep. Xavier Becerra decided against accepting President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be U.S. Trade Representative, the Democrat told a California newspaper.
SEOUL, June 2 (UPI) -- Free trade talks between South Korea and the United States begin next week in a bid to cut barriers to bilateral trade that last year totaled $73 billion. Some 300 delegates from the two nations, headed by South Korea's FTA Ambassador Kim Jong-hoon and As
WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- Rep. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, in his seventh term in Congress, was nominated Thursday by President Bush to be the next U.S. trade representative.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The White House Friday announced that President Bush planned to designate Peter F. Allgeier to be acting U.S. trade representative.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Trade barriers for manufactured goods should be completely eliminated by 2015, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said Tuesday. The proposal would see the phasing out of border taxes on nearly $6 trillion in annual world trade in non-agricultural g
