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Korea
With an end-of-March deadline looming large, the chief US free trade agreement negotiator with South Korea emphatically declared Thursday that a "high-quality" deal is within reach.
A group of about 870 people, including 23 lawmakers, voiced their opposition Thursday to the free trade talks between South Korea and the United States underway here, said organizers, witnesses and police.
South Korea and the United States made no headway in high-level talks to resolve outstanding agricultural issues that have been a sticking point in bilateral free trade negotiations, the government said Tuesday.
The North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, has been a disaster for workers and families, and even social institutions, in the three participating nations -- the United States, Canada and Mexico -- labor experts from the three countries told Congress. Not only that, they warned that the pending US-Korea Free Trade Agreement would be a repeat of that NAFTA fiasco.
South Korean officials expressed "regret" Sunday over US lawmakers' demands that South Korea further open its auto market as part of a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with the world's largest economy.
South Korea and the United States have in principle agreed to exclude rice from their free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday.
President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun share many similarities.
In an interview with domestic Internet media, the president said an FTA between Seoul and Washington will not lead to the Americanization or polarization of Korean society.
South Korea's chief negotiator in free trade agreement (FTA) talks with the United States on Friday said the two sides could resolve a trade dispute over his country's rejection of US beef shipments, one of a few lingering obstacles in the nine-month-old negotiations.
L'industrie de la construction navale au Canada surveille avec inquiétude les négociations entre Ottawa et des pays spécialisés dans la construction de navires en vue de conclure des accords de libre-échange. Des chantiers navals canadiens affirment que leur avenir pourrait être compromis si les tarifs douaniers actuels, de 25 %, devaient disparaître.
