ISDS Case Map
Korea
President Lee Myung-bak and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed Tuesday to forge a "strategic partnership" between the two countries. The free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between Korea and China will be sought after joint research.
A concrete mixer. Crates of cauliflower. A Harley-Davidson. Chunks of cheese. President Bush used a White House lawn stacked with props yesterday to press Congress to approve free-trade pacts with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea.
Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama in a letter released on Friday warned of a major fight over a free trade agreement with South Korea if President George W. Bush sends it to the U.S. Congress.
India is currently negotiating preferential trade and investment agreements with some developed countries - the European Union, Japan and Korea.
Downtown Seoul saw massive demonstrations by farmers against the Korea-US free trade agreement and import of US beef on Thursday with some 8,000 farmers from 42 groups nationwide including the Hanwoo Association
Political tension over Seoul's controversial trade pacts with Washington heightened on Wednesday, just three days before the last session of the outgoing parliament is scheduled to close.
South Korea and the United States are continuing consultations on the controversial issue of beef trade, with public protests here over a related deal showing no signs of abating, the top U.S. envoy here said Monday.
South Korean negotiators have won a new concession from US officials regarding the American beef import agreement, with the new clause giving Seoul "quarantine and inspection sovereignty," government sources said Monday.
While the FTA delivers on Lee's pledge to double South Korea's wealth if elected and lets the U.S. rebuild its Asian beef trade obliterated by a mad cow scare five years ago--especially exports to China and Japan--many in South Korea are saying, "You want us to import WHAT"?
South Korea's political parties collided over the scheduled import of US beef Tuesday, as opposition parties continued their move to link the beef accord with ratification of a free trade deal with Washington.
