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 The Treasury Department said 
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the U.S. trade deficit may worsen next year, after two years of significant improvement.
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 In its report to Congress on international economic policies, the Treasury said 
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that any improvement in the broadest measure of trade,
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 known as the current account,
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 is likely at best to be very modest, 
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and the possibility of deterioration in the current account next year cannot be excluded.
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 The statement was the U.S. government's first acknowledgement 
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of what other groups, such as the International Monetary Fund, have been predicting for months. 
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Continued strength in the dollar was cited as one reason
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 the trade position may deteriorate.
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 The Treasury's report,
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 which is required annually by a provision of the 1988 trade act, 
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again took South Korea to task for its exchange-rate policies. 
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We believe 
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that there have continued to be indications of exchange-rate `manipulation' during the past six months,
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 it said, 
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citing the lack of market forces in South Korea's exchange-rate system and the use of capital and interest-rate controls 
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to manipulate exchange rates.
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 The Treasury expressed pleasure, however, with the government of Taiwan,
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 which was cited for exchange-rate manipulation in last year's report.
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 The Treasury said 
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Taiwan has liberalized its exchange rate system in the past year.
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