ISDS Case Map
Korea
The North Korean city of Gaesung will emerge as a major beneficiary of the India-South Korea comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) which is likely to be signed soon
South Korea and Peru will start their first round of free trade negotiations in Seoul next week, South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Friday.
Panama, Colombia and South Korea need to resolve a number of outstanding concerns before Congress will approve free trade pacts with each of those countries, a US lawmaker said on Wednesday.
South Korea is pushing for the G20 countries to support a moratorium on new import tariffs at next month's meeting, according to President Lee Myung-bak.
The US trade representative-designate on Monday said Washington's free trade agreement with Seoul was unfair in its current state and warned his government could ditch the deal. The FTA "as it is just simply isn't fair, and if we don't get that right we'll be prepared to step away from that," Ron Kirk said in his confirmation hearing at the US Senate Finance Committee.
The European Union's trade chief is confident she can convince member states to back a free trade pact with Korea, despite fierce opposition from the bloc's embattled car industry.
Meat & Wool New Zealand describes the prospect of a free trade agreement between New Zealand and South Korea as a "big deal" for domestic beef producers.
Australia's red meat and live cattle export trade to South-East Asia received a boost last week, with the signing of a new trade deal.
Australia's beef industry will be the big winner if free trade talks between the Government and South Korea are successful.
Ruling and opposition party lawmakers have tentatively agreed to postpone until April a decision on ratifying the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement concluded in 2007.
