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Korea
Among 53 Lotte Marts nationwide, six of the stores have already suspended sales of American beef due to demonstrations opposing the Korea-US FTA.
South Korea has sent a draft proposal on free trade talks to the EU, promising to remove or phase out import tariffs on cars over seven years. Seoul has also decided to exclude rice from its list of markets subject to opening, but it may agree to open up its agricultural market, including beef.
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) congratulates US trade negotiators on this week's signing of two important bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), and calls upon Congress to ratify the two FTAs as soon as possible.
Lawyers for Democratic Society on July 12 requested that the government disclose information on the six new or corrected articles of the final protocol of the free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States concluded on June 30.
Korea's chief envoy to free trade talks with the European Union is cautioning against being overly optimistic about having products made at an industrial park in North Korea's Kaeseong included in the bilateral trade deal.
The ongoing free trade pact talks with the European Union (EU) will be centered on the extent of liberalization of the manufacturing sector, a senior Korean government official said Thursday.
Beef and pork prices in South Korea fell year-on-year in the second quarter for the first time in eight years, apparently due to the proposed free trade pact with the United States, the government said Monday.
An imported-beef inspection team appointed by the government went to the United States on June 30 for a four-phase appraisal of the risks of American beef. It should be a precise process but everything from the preparation to the actual inspection made it seem as if they were just going through the motions. You worry whether they were adequately inspecting the beef for mad cow risk.
With Seoul and Washington concluding their renegotiation of the Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA), it has been confirmed there were some ‘‘unfair parts'' added to the economic deal under which investors of both sides are not treated equally in their respective countries.
On Tuesday, July 03, 2007, two Co-Chairs of the Korean Alliance
against the Korea-U.S. FTA, Oh Jong-ryul and Jung Gwang-hoon, were
arrested on charges of carrying out 'illegal' and 'non-permitted'
protests against the free trade agreement between US and Korea. We call upon individuals and organziations to endorse this protest letter by 13 July 2007.
