Persistence pays off.
In this case, the result is fair market access for the United States with one of our trading partners. He is chairman of the Senate International Trade Subcommittee. Effective this month, the government of the Republic of Korea has decided to take the steps necessary to allow Maytag to export to Korea its Neptune-model high efficiency clothes washers. Grassley's effort to break down the nontariff trade barrier that Korea had erected against these appliances began one year ago, when he asked U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky to request that the Korean government open its market to U.S. exports. At that time, the U.S. government was asked to help support the Korean economy through the International Monetary Fund.