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South Korea will hold a series of talks with Canada in Seoul next week on a free trade agreement (FTA), the country's Agriculture Ministry said Tuesday.
The United States is the world's largest economy while South Korea ranks tenth. The two countries started negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in Washington D.C. June 5-10.
The United States does not want goods produced in the Kaesong industrial complex to be included in the free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, a senior economic official at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul said.
The Korean Peasants League and the Korea Dairy & Beef Farmers Association have filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade over the ministry's reluctance to share information with them related to the first round of South Korean-US free trade talks that concluded in Washington last week.
In a welcoming speech at an evening reception in Seoul Tuesday, ahead of the 19th Korea-U.S. Business Council meeting, top businesspeople and government officials from Korea and the United States heard Hyosung Group, and council joint-chairman Cho Suck-rai, stress the importance of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
Negotiations on a free trade pact between South Korea and Japan remain in a stalemate because Seoul is demanding too many concessions in the agricultural sector from Tokyo, a top Japanese envoy said Tuesday.
US-Korea Business Council and American Chamber of Commerce Korea position paper on the US-Korea FTA.
Letter from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation to the US Trade Representative on intellectual property, GM labelling, biosafety, GM contamination and other issues BIO wants addressed under the US-Korea FTA talks.
Korea will seek to strike free trade agreements (FTA) with China, Japan, India, the EU and Russia on top of its current negotiations with the United States, the nation's top economic policymaker said.
The Korea-U.S. free trade agreement will top the agenda in talks of the 19th Korea-US Business Council meeting starting Tuesday in Seoul for two days, according to the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI).
