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Korea
The Canadian Auto Workers has called on the three opposition parties in Ottawa to vote down any Canada-Korea free trade agreement in order to save Canadian jobs. CAW's internal analysis predicts the trade deal would cost over 33,000 jobs.
Canada is entering a difficult final phase of free-trade negotiations with South Korea and needs to secure a deal if it wants to be able to compete with the United States in Asia, Trade Minister David Emerson said on Tuesday.
South Korea and China will hold a third round of preliminary talks this week on a possible free trade agreement, the foreign ministry said Monday.
South Korea's top agriculture policymaker said that there will be no linkage between plans to rewrite US beef import rules with the ratification of the free trade agreement that was signed in late June.
Korean government officials are trying to downplay concerns by anti-globalization and anti-FTA protesters including farmers that the Korea-US trade deal may lead to subjugation of the Korean economy to the United States. But a recent IMF report says that technology and foreign investment are worsening income inequality around the world.
Activists held protests Friday and urged the South Korean government to stop "unfair" trade deals with the European Union, as the fourth round of talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the EU was due to end in Seoul.
The European Union on Friday said it was disappointed with South Korea's offer in talks on a free-trade agreement.
The European Union has shunned discussions on South Korea's proposal to include a North Korean industrial park in their proposed free trade agreement (FTA), officials said. Meanwhile, European businesses have warned their leaders not to play politics with trade and exclude the park from any trade agreement with Seoul.
A farmer carries a model pig during his one-man protest in front of the hotel where South Korean-EU free trade talks are being held in Seoul
The EU is demanding that Korea match reductions on beef and car-import tariffs that it granted the US in June.
