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The European Union on Friday said it was disappointed with South Korea's offer in talks on a free-trade agreement.
The European Union has shunned discussions on South Korea's proposal to include a North Korean industrial park in their proposed free trade agreement (FTA), officials said. Meanwhile, European businesses have warned their leaders not to play politics with trade and exclude the park from any trade agreement with Seoul.
A farmer carries a model pig during his one-man protest in front of the hotel where South Korean-EU free trade talks are being held in Seoul
The EU is demanding that Korea match reductions on beef and car-import tariffs that it granted the US in June.
With a firm eye on the support of labor unions, which oppose free trade pacts, US presidential contender Hillary Clinton denounced not only the Korea-US trade deal but also NAFTA, which was signed by her own husband, former president Bill Clinton. It seems the Korea-US FTA is unlikely to be ratified by Congress before the tenure of President George W. Bush is out.
Please sign this international protest letter against the arrests of Mr. Seok-woon Park and Mr. Je-jun Ju of the Korean Alliance against Korea-US FTA, and the continuing suppression of the Korean anti-FTA movement, before 19 October 2007
"A free trade deal with Korea will take a bad situation and make it worse...The government should cancel these talks," said Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove.
South Korea and Southeast Asian nations have reached a free trade deal on services, raising the possibility of finalizing free trade talks by the end of this year.
South Korea and Canada will focus on barley, bean, potato and other farm products in free trade agreement talks that reopen in Ottawa this week
As part of an ambitious plan to widen economic cooperation, the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council and South Korea are all set to start negotiations after Ramadan to implement a free trade agreement
