Record / E-2026-0031
Korea trade agreement said to be signed in a couple of weeks is signed in nineteen days
On September 5, 2018, Trump said of the revised trade agreement with South Korea: We've made a deal with South Korea. It may be signed during the United Nations conference in a couple of weeks. The deal is done. He restated it on September 7, 2018: It's completed. We're probably going to sign at United Nations week, in a couple of weeks. The revised United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement was signed in New York on September 24, 2018, nineteen days after the first statement.
Context
This instance was delivered inside the stated window and is recorded with the same prominence as the instances that slipped. The statements were hedged with may be and probably, and the signing was pinned to a fixed calendar event, United Nations General Assembly week, rather than to an interval counted from the statement.
Sources
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Remarks in an Expanded Bilateral Meeting With Amir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah of Kuwait
Remarks, September 5, 2018, American Presidency Project
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Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Fargo, North Dakota
Remarks, September 7, 2018, American Presidency Project
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Remarks With President Moon Jae-in of South Korea at a Signing Ceremony
Signing ceremony remarks, September 24, 2018, American Presidency Project