ISDS Case Map
Korea
CSI is comprised of US service companies and trade associations seeking to achieve market access in all modes of supply in all negotiating forums.
June 2006 US Business Roundtable White Paper on US-Korea FTA
A majority of South Koreans favour delaying free trade agreement (FTA) talks with the United States, and want the government to release details on the negotiations, a poll showed Tuesday.
The United States has asked South Korea to open its gambling market during talks for a proposed free trade agreement between the two nations. According to South Korea's proposal for the service and investment markets, horse racing and casinos are to be barred from access by the other country.
South Korea said Friday it will open a seventh round of formal talks next week on a proposed free trade agreement with Canada.
A free-trade deal Ottawa is negotiating with South Korea could cost Canada up to 33,000 jobs -- including 4,000 in the auto industry -- this country's largest private sector union warned yesterday.
Regarding the proposed South Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA), the true "stance" of the nation's two main political parties seems to be, "if it succeeds, we are for it. If it fails, we are against it".
Politicians tend to be very backward looking people. They are usually the
last to notice important trends and to recognize the ways in which the world
is changing. Perhaps this is why many politicians in South Korea place such
a high priority on a new trade agreement with the United States.
The US is likely to push for the exclusion of its automobile industry from the ongoing negotiations on a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, trade sources said.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions may stage an indefinite strike beginning Nov. 15 in protest over new labor reform bills and free trade agreement talks with the United States.
