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South Korea has internationally recognized labor and environmental standards that would ease opposition by US Democrats who traditionally don't favour trade agreements with foreign countries, a South Korean asserted this week.
Korea and US business leaders agreed Wednesday to push for the completion of a free trade agreement between Korea and the US. But at the 19th Korea-US Business Council meeting in Seoul, the two sides failed to see eye to eye on some key issues, especially whether products made in the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex should be included and whether Koreans should be granted a visa waiver in the US.
The United States is the world's largest economy while South Korea ranks tenth. The two countries started negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in Washington D.C. June 5-10.
The United States does not want goods produced in the Kaesong industrial complex to be included in the free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, a senior economic official at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul said.
The Korean Peasants League and the Korea Dairy & Beef Farmers Association have filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade over the ministry's reluctance to share information with them related to the first round of South Korean-US free trade talks that concluded in Washington last week.
Washington was behind the abrupt removal of a World Health Organisation representative to Thailand after he wrote of possible adverse impacts to Thailand of a free trade agreement with the US, a source said yesterday.
In a welcoming speech at an evening reception in Seoul Tuesday, ahead of the 19th Korea-U.S. Business Council meeting, top businesspeople and government officials from Korea and the United States heard Hyosung Group, and council joint-chairman Cho Suck-rai, stress the importance of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
US-Korea Business Council and American Chamber of Commerce Korea position paper on the US-Korea FTA.
A 98-page outline of US industry recommendations for the proposed US-Malaysia FTA.
Letter from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation to the US Trade Representative on intellectual property, GM labelling, biosafety, GM contamination and other issues BIO wants addressed under the US-Korea FTA talks.
