Tens of thousands of workers and anti-US activists rallied Friday in central Seoul in monsoon rains to oppose a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States.
Renegotiations on the FTA with the United States have effectively come to an end. Following approximately one more round of talks, the two countries will finalize and sign the document on June 30.
U.S. House of Representatives Republicans sought a broad renewal on Thursday of the Bush administration's "fast track" trade authority to conclude world trade talks and smaller bilateral deals.
Costa Rica's PAC party (Citizen Action) president Otton Solis has warned of the potential increase in unemployment if CAFTA-DR, the free trade treaty with the United States, is approved.
Groups of students, professionals, and unions in Panama are protesting the signing Thursday of a free trade agreement with the US, for considering it an affront to the country s sovereignty and dignity.
South Korea has accepted a U.S. request to add new labour and environmental provisions to a trade deal they reached in April and will sign the pact by a Saturday deadline, the prime minister said.
South Korea will spend more than 130 trillion won ($140.3 billion) through 2013 to compensate for losses to farms and fisheries stemming from a free trade deal with the United States, the government said on Thursday.
Australia could be invited to join the North American Free Trade Agreement as part of a strategy among Asia-Pacific nations to deal with the collapse of world trade talks.
The US and Colombia reached agreement today on amendments to a bilateral free-trade accord sought by the Democratic-controlled Congress, the US government said.