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Ron Kirk, who recently stepped down as U.S. trade representative, says he traveled the country to listen to and change the minds of those who tried to slow trade deals. (Associated Press)
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President Obama and Ron Kirk have renegotiated deals begun under President George W. Bush but have not made an enthusiastic push to pursue any more trade agreements, critics say. (Associated Press)
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack listens to U.S. Trade Representative Ronald Kirk (left) during a Senate Finance Committee hearing Thursday on Russia joining the World Trade Organization and the administration's views on the implications for the United States. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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President Obama, accompanied by Commerce Secretary John E. Bryson (left) and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, March 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk confer before the start of an APEC ministerial meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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President Barack Obama, together with U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, left, and Deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman, right, makes a statement about the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, in Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Obama shakes hands with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk looks on after Mr. Obama signed the Manufacturing Enhancement Act of 2010 in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
