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It was 9:00 pm local time on the second day of the third round of Korea-US FTA talks.
Two major coalitions have formed to oppose the KORUS FTA and organize protest activities during the negotiations: the Korean Alliance Against Korea-US FTA (KoA), based in South Korea, and Korean Americans Against War And Neoliberalism (KAWAN), based in the United States.
The Dominican government will inform United States authorities as to how it prefers to handle export guidelines that are expected to enter the country en masse, should the DR-CAFTA be implemented before year's end.
The garments industry may not see the benefits of the new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US until early next year, said an industry leader.
The US has reportedly insisted on excluding its state governments from many of the stipulations of the free trade agreement (FTA) currently being negotiated with South Korea.
South Korean officials expressed disappointment Thursday at what they believed were low tariff concessions suggested by the US in free trade talks under way in Seattle.
The Federation of Korean Industries, Korea's biggest business lobby group, has raised its voice against the United States' demand for stricter rules on chaebols or family-run conglomerates in the free trade agreement talks between the two countries.
Free trade negotiators from South Korea and the United States ended the first day of talks Wednesday, sending mixed signals that they achieved "some progress" but also faced "some challenges."
Korean workers and farmers take the front line of a demonstration Wednesday against U.S. trade talks with South Korea. The midday march briefly stopped downtown traffic as demonstrators laid down in the streets around Westlake Park.
A group of 23 South Korean lawmakers on Thursday filed a suit with South Korea's Constitutional Court, claiming that President Roh Moo-hyun's administration's move to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) with the U.S. is unconstitutional.
