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The US-South Korea free trade agreement comes at precisely the moment when America's military presence on the Korean Peninsula is rapidly diminishing, anti-US nationalism in South Korea is growing and China is playing an ever more important leadership role in the region. "This FTA is about countering China," says Yang Sung Chul, a former US ambassador to South Korea, now professor at Korea University in Seoul. "It's much more significant in strategic than economic terms."
Colombia accepts proposed U.S. changes to a free trade agreement and is ready to take additional steps to address concerns of Democrats in Congress, the country's vice president said on Thursday.
The actual document that is slated to be ratified as the free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States has been made public. As expected, there were quite a few sections the public never knew about that would be disadvantageous for Korea.
American advisory committees gave divided and mixed evaluations of a proposed South Korea-US free trade agreement, the opinions sometimes differing even within an industry.
The White House has made details of the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement available to the public, and according to the National Pork Producers Council, US pork producers have a lot to be happy about: an additional $10 per pig as a result.
South Korea and the United States on Friday released the full text of their free trade agreement, a disclosure that reignited controversy here as critics say the accord will only benefit American companies, while destroying the lives of Korean farmers and other workers.
While Democratic leaders and President Bush do the hard sell on bipartisan immigration reform, they are now pushing secret, anti-worker, anti-environment trade agreements that will only exacerbate US immigration problems.
Japan has begun considering bilateral free trade agreements with both the United States and the European Union, with specific plans. If the studies proceed smoothly, Japan and the United States are expected to start FTA negotiations "around the summer of 2009 after the launch of a new US administration," a senior METI official said.
South Korea and the United States have been in discussions to release the full text of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) on Friday, a senior trade official said Wednesday, amid an indication that the deal's renegotiation is imminent.
