(Reuters) - The deal came after nine months of negotiations and sometimes violent protests in South Korea, mostly over fears that the country's heavily subsidised farmers could not survive a flood of cheaper U.S. farm products.
Seoul agreed in the end to phase out its 40 percent tariff on U.S. beef over 15 years, but it was not immediately clear how much the two sides had conceded on other issues and whether South Korea's long-protected rice market would be opened up.
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