A free trade agreement (FTA) between Turkey and South Korea that came into effect at the beginning of this month has registered a number of firsts for Turkey, which had exempted its agricultural goods from deals until the Seoul deal but is now aiming to use the new agreement as a template for future FTAs.
ASEAN trade officials, along with its six partners, kicked off talks on a regional trade agreement in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, on Thursday. The talks began with the establishment of the trade negotiating committee that would discuss various trade and investment issues until next Monday, Trade Ministry director general for international trade cooperation Iman Pambagyo said.
A major agreement aimed at boosting trade and investment ties between South Korea and Indonesia may be ratified before the end of this year, industry minister M.S. Hidayat said in Jakarta on Friday.
South Korea’s free trade agreement (FTA) with Turkey will go into effect in May, opening the door for the two nations to expand bilateral trade and boost economic cooperation, the Seoul government said Monday.
Indonesia and South Korea have agreed to continue talks on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA), aiming to conclude at the end of this year a deal that will help boost bilateral trade to US$100 billion by 2020.
Shinzo Abe’s recent announcement that Japan aims to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations has sparked life into other trade talks Japan has aimed to start, with those for an economic partnership agreement with the European Union the latest example.
Representantes comerciales de las tres naciones mantendrán conversaciones hasta el jueves en un hotel de la capital surcoreana, según explicó un vocero del Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Energía de Seúl, con una agenda que no se ha querido hacer pública.
South Korea’s auto industry expressed fears of an influx of car imports as Seoul kicked off trilateral talks on Tuesday with Japan and China to allow free trade between over 1.5 billion consumers in the three Asian nations.
China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Tuesday started the first round of trilateral talks on the free trade agreement (FTA) in the ROK’s capital, which will continue until Thursday.
Ces trois pays entrent ce 26 mars en négociations dans l’objectif de signer un accord qui faciliterait les échanges commerciaux entre ces trois économies asiatiques pesant pas moins de 20% du PIB mondial.
The US ambassador to Seoul raised the possibility of making changes to the free trade agreement with South Korea, saying a renegotiation would be possible if South Korea wants to do so.
The absence of a free trade deal between South Korea and Canada is the weakest link in their bilateral relations, and the two countries need to conclude one this year to deepen their partnership in a wider range of areas, Canada’s visiting governor general said Tuesday.
Los floricultores expresaron su descontento por la firma del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) entre Corea y Colombia, puesto que perdieron ese mercado con Holanda.
Pese a las protestas de trabajadores colombianos realizadas este miércoles, el TLC entre Colombia y Corea del Sur fue aprobado y ahora espera la autorización de los Parlamentos para entrar en vigencia. Sindicatos del país suramericano indican que más que inversión, el pacto traerá desempleo.
A pesar de que los hechos demuestran que Colombia es un perdedor neto en el libre comercio, el presidente Juan Manuel Santos y su gobierno insisten en acordar más Tratados de Libre Comercio, los cuales le darán el golpe de gracia al sector productivo agrario e industrial, con pésimas consecuencias para el empleo y el bienestar de los colombianos.
The Coalition for Cultural Diversity in Moving Images (CDMI) is a non-governmental organization based in Seoul, Korea, striving to protect global cultural diversity and local movie industries. Since it was launched in 1993 to effectively enforce the screen quota system, we’ve been acting as the watchdog for the Korean movie industry and we are currently working to protect the sovereignty of Korean media culture as well as cultural diversity.
Sur ce blog vous trouverez explications, actualités, photos et vidéos du mouvement de contestation en Corée du Sud contre l’importation de bœuf américain et pour la destitution du président Lee Myong Bak.
The EU-Korea FTA Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) is intended to produce studies in order to provide a deeper understanding of the sustainability impacts of the trade and investment aspects of the Free Trade Agreement and of the mechanisms through which they might affect both the EU and Korea.
The US-based Korea Policy Institute produces policy briefs, organizes Congressional press briefings and sponsors policy roundtable on the proposed US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement.
Korean Civil Society Coalition against KORUS FTA on Intellectual Property Rigthts (KCSC) is deeply worried about the Korea-US FTA negotiations especially on the issue of IPRs such as copyright, patent and trademark and strongly opposes the whole process of Korea-US FTA negotiations.
KoPA is a coalition of around 50 NGOs, social movement organizations, political parties, peasant organizations and trade unions working, among other things, to stop bilateral and regional free trade agreements and the WTO.
The US-Korea FTA Business Coalition is a group of over 100 leading US companies and trade associations that strongly support the conclusion and passage of a free trade agreement between the United States and the Republic of Korea.