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Korea
With a firm eye on the support of labor unions, which oppose free trade pacts, US presidential contender Hillary Clinton denounced not only the Korea-US trade deal but also NAFTA, which was signed by her own husband, former president Bill Clinton. It seems the Korea-US FTA is unlikely to be ratified by Congress before the tenure of President George W. Bush is out.
Please sign this international protest letter against the arrests of Mr. Seok-woon Park and Mr. Je-jun Ju of the Korean Alliance against Korea-US FTA, and the continuing suppression of the Korean anti-FTA movement, before 19 October 2007
"A free trade deal with Korea will take a bad situation and make it worse...The government should cancel these talks," said Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove.
South Korea and Southeast Asian nations have reached a free trade deal on services, raising the possibility of finalizing free trade talks by the end of this year.
South Korea and Canada will focus on barley, bean, potato and other farm products in free trade agreement talks that reopen in Ottawa this week
As part of an ambitious plan to widen economic cooperation, the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council and South Korea are all set to start negotiations after Ramadan to implement a free trade agreement
Elaborate funeral rituals were performed in central Brussels over the past week to show how a planned free trade accord between the European Union and the Korean government should, in the view of anti-poverty campaigners, be buried.
On the occasion of the 3rd round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between South Korea and the EU taking place from 17th till 21st September in Brussels, Belgium, members of the Korean Alliance against Korea-EU FTA (KoA) and members from social movements and civil society organisations from Europe have come together to join forces and struggle together against the Global Europe strategy and the Korea-EU FTA.
From the Korea FTA Industry Alliance and BUSINESSEUROPE
An independent report from the US International Trade Commission on the South Korea-US free trade agreement gives rosy predictions of the deal as one that benefits the US more than South Korea.
