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"We are learning new things while we're negotiating with the American representatives," said a Korean official who was part of the labor section negotiation team during the first round of the Korea-U.S. FTA talks, held in Washington last June. "The U.S. is demanding the introduction of a so-called 'public communication system,' which was a term that we heard for the first time," the negotiator told Hankyoreh.
Thailand is included in a group of 13 countries that may lose preferential tariffs when the US revamps its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program at the end of the year, US officials said yesterday.
Seoul National University President Chung Un-chan, who is also a prominent economist, has criticized the government's handling of the free trade agreement with the United States as hasty application of theory.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia and the United States that could be signed in October or November this year will maintain the tariff exemptions already enjoyed by Colombia's flourishing flower industry. But there are no plans for higher wages and better working conditions for the industry's 100,000 workers.
The Bush administration is considering ending trade concessions granted to India, Brazil and other fast-developing nations under a three-decade-old program meant to help poor countries. The administration's review comes as some lawmakers look to punish governments that opposed US policies during World Trade Organization talks -- especially a group of middle-income nations led by Brazil and India -- by ending their preferences entirely.
Remember during the debate over the Central American Free Trade Agreement, every Republican politician and corporate lobbyist was giving the public the "free trade creates American jobs" line? It's a line that America has become used to hearing from Washington, D.C. -- even though, as both Hostile Takeover and Take This Job and Ship It show, this mantra has no relation to reality.
Well-known social commentator and oriental philosopher Kim Young-oak, better known by his penname Doh-ol, said that Korean President Roh Moo-hyun should stop pushing for the establishment of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, citing the lack of public support.
After a month and five days of implementing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with United States, Guatemala is suffering from this pact's asymmetries and is suing the northern country for unfair competition.
Speaking to members of the United States Trade Representatives (USTR) in Washington last month, I learned that Congress supported the FTA with Bahrain partly because it posed no threat to American farm industry.
Pakistan's Commerce Minister has pressed for talks on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, billing such a pact as a "powerful tool" in the battle against extremism.
