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Korea
A group of 35 governing Uri Party lawmakers Tuesday called on US President George W Bush to include products from an inter-Korean industrial park in a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the US.
South Korea and the United States ended the first of a two-day meeting on pharmaceuticals and medical equipment on Monday, with Washington reiterating its acceptance of Seoul's new drug policy plan within an envisioned free trade agreement (FTA), South Korean officials said.
The United States cannot agree to South Korea's request for a free trade pact between the two countries to include goods made in an industrial park in North Korea. "It won't happen, can't happen," US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said Friday.
The European Union is showing eagerness to establish a free trade agreement (FTA) with Korea ahead of the resumption of talks next month, officials of both sides say.
South Korea and the United States exchanged initial tariff cut proposals for manufactured goods, agricultural products and textiles ahead of their third round of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations next month, the government said Tuesday.
The figures show Thais are winning with free trade - yet many of the nation's small farmers, struggling just to scrape by, are looking to lessons learned around the world.
The United States welcomed Friday an agreement reached with South Korea on a pharmaceutical pricing system that had impeded bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) talks but denied it was a concession on its part.
South Korea and the United States reported an apparent breakthrough in free-trade talks Friday after bickering over pharmaceuticals cut short negotiations last month.
The United States has accepted South Korea's new drug-pricing measure aimed at offering quality medicine at cheaper prices, brightening the future of the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on pharmaceutical issues, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday.
Seoul and Washington reportedly have a plan to hold separate negotiations on the controversial issue of pharmaceutical pricing in a third country, ahead of the third round of FTA talks to be held in the U.S.
