ISDS Case Map
Korea
South Korean officials expressed "regret" Sunday over US lawmakers' demands that South Korea further open its auto market as part of a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with the world's largest economy.
South Korea and the United States have in principle agreed to exclude rice from their free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday.
President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun share many similarities.
In an interview with domestic Internet media, the president said an FTA between Seoul and Washington will not lead to the Americanization or polarization of Korean society.
South Korea's chief negotiator in free trade agreement (FTA) talks with the United States on Friday said the two sides could resolve a trade dispute over his country's rejection of US beef shipments, one of a few lingering obstacles in the nine-month-old negotiations.
L'industrie de la construction navale au Canada surveille avec inquiétude les négociations entre Ottawa et des pays spécialisés dans la construction de navires en vue de conclure des accords de libre-échange. Des chantiers navals canadiens affirment que leur avenir pourrait être compromis si les tarifs douaniers actuels, de 25 %, devaient disparaître.
A US-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) could show North Korea that economic liberalization would be a better guarantee of prosperity than nuclear brinkmanship, according to a paper re-issued by a conservative think tank on Tuesday.
"A majority of people are opposed to this," Hyun Lee of the group Korean Americans Against War and Neoliberalism told OneWorld. "None of the benefits of these trade agreements go to ordinary people and ordinary workers. They only go to fatten the pockets of transnational corporations."
For the Korean Alliance Against Korea-U.S. FTA, February and March will become a crucial month for mass mobilization both domestically and internationally.
Contrary to its long-standing assertion that rice will be excluded from a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US, South Korea's government is reviewing measures to open some less sensitive rice products.
