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The US International Trade Commission (ITC) will hold a public hearing Thursday on a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, industry officials said Sunday.
Representatives from a variety of industries have formed a private board to closely monitor the government's negotiations with the United States for a free trade agreement (FTA).
Trade minister Toshihiro Nikai's announcement earlier this month that Japan plans to start talks with 15 other nations in 2008 to create an Asia-Oceania free-trade zone took many by surprise -- not only experts but also those within government -- sparking speculation about the ministry's true intentions.
South Korea's trade minister warned Monday that the upcoming negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States could collapse if the deal harms South Korean national interests.
The South Korean government may offer more incentives for farmers and their families in an attempt to curb protests over its negotiations with the United States for a free-trade agreement, South Korea's chief negotiator said Monday.
South Korea is poised to include a partial opening of the education market in its coming talks for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States. The US is calling for the Korean government to open the college education market involving graduate schools and the pre-school education market involving kindergartens.
A massive protest against a planned free trade agreement between Korea and the U.S. brought some 8,000 trade unionists, farmers, students and actors from 100 groups to Daehagno, downtown Seoul on Sunday.
South Korean chief negotiator for the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States Kim Jong-hoon said Saturday that the public-sectors services would be excluded from the FTA talks.
A presidential senior secretary strongly defended Korea's move to sign a free trade deal with the United States by saying that the deal, if successfully concluded, would pull the nation into the ranks of advanced countries.
President Roh Moo-hyun's public relations secretary Lee Baek-man has rejected criticism from circles close to the government that a planned free-trade agreement with the US would amount to selling out the nation.
