The US Congress and the Bush administration reached what they said was a "historic" deal Thursday, on including provisions on labor and environmental standards in bilateral free-trade agreements... Senate Finance Committee Chairman Senator Max...Baucus's office said the deal would require pending free-trade agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama and South Korea to include five core International Labor Organization (ILO) standards incorporated in the 1998 ILO Declaration... The US Chamber of Commerce welcomed the bipartisan deal, saying... "...we are encouraged by assurances that the labor provisions cannot be read to require compliance with ILO Conventions."