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Farmers clash with police protest against trade liberalization

(20 Nov 2003) SHOTLIST 1. Various, farmers and police clashing with sticks and rocks 2. Pull out from police on top of police buses used as barricades and farmers trying to climb on to them 3. Mid shot, farmers setting fire to police buses 4. Pull out from police spraying fire extinguisher at farmers 5. Mid shot, police on top of bus 6. Various, police and farmers scuffling 7. Close shot, injured farmer 8. Various, demonstration 9. Stage where protesters made speeches 10. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Su-gyeong Lee, Vice President of Korean Advanced Farmers Federation, Gyeong-buk branch: "Some of the policies to open agricultural market are burdensome to us. Therefore, we oppose WTO. No WTO!" 11. Mid shot, farmers sitting 12. Various, farmers chanting "protect our agriculture" 13. Pan of rally at riverside park 14. Various, marchers STORYLINE: Hundreds of farmers clashed with riot police in the South Korean capital Seoul on Wednesday night. The violence broke out after around 50-thousand farmers dispersed following a two-hour rally against World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations and a trade deal with Chile, which the farmers claim could threaten their livelihoods. Television footage showed police and farmers trading blows with sticks and metal rods, and protesters smashing police bus windows near the National Assembly. Media reported that several people were injured in the melee, but it wasn't immediately clear how many. Before the march, protesters tore two large US flags into pieces and shouted: "Let's protect our agriculture". The 146-nation WTO is trying to work out a timetable to liberalise farm trade. A WTO meeting in September in Cancun, Mexico, collapsed because of differences of opinion between developing countries and rich nations. In South Korea's first bilateral trade agreement, Chile has promised to lift all tariffs on South Korean cars, trucks, mobile phones, computers, TV sets and air conditioners. In return, South Korea will immediately remove tariffs on Chilean copper products, animal feed, wheat, wool and tomatoes, as well as 277 fisheries products. Tariffs on other Chilean farm and fisheries goods will be eliminated in five to 10 years. The deal has yet to be ratified by lawmakers. But protesting farmers fear cheaper Chilean imports will flood the domestic market. They also accuse the United States of leading the WTO trade talks, which could force their country to further open its market to cheap foreign agricultural imports. South Korean farmers benefited from a closed market and government subsidies until Seoul ended its decades-old ban on rice imports in 1994, and agreed that imports should make up 4 percent of all domestic rice consumption by 2004. Rice - Koreans' staple food - is the main source of income for 6 (m) million South Korean farmers. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...