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S. Korea to hold 5th round of FTA talks with 6 Central American countries
8-Aug-2016 Business Korea
South Korea plans to strengthen intellectual property rights and competition laws in order to help its domestic firms push into the Central American markets.
Demand justice for Korean farmer Baek Nam-gi
1-Aug-2016 IUF
Korean farmer Baek Nam-gi remains unconscious in a hospital bed in Seoul after he was struck down by police water cannon in the mass demonstration against the government’s promotion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Written opinion on RCEP to South Korean Government and request for a face-to-face meeting and public hearings
27-Jul-2016 Occupy FTA
The Korean negotiators failed to abide by the free and fair trade principle and negotiate RCEP in a way that violates treaties on trade and the generally accepted international laws and regulations.
S. Korea, EU agree to continue developing FTA
25-Jul-2016 Korea Herald
South Korea’s finance minister said a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) should be further developed despite Britain’s recent exit from the world’s biggest economic bloc.
Korea, Mongolia to seek free trade deal
19-Jul-2016 Korea Times
South Korea and Mongolia have agreed to seek a free trade pact to expand bilateral economic cooperation
Korea-Colombia FTA to take effect this week
14-Jul-2016 Korea Herald
The Korea-Colombia free trade agreement will go into effect from July 16. The agreement will eliminate tariffs on 4,390 Korean export products to the South American country.
Korea hastens FTA push amid Brexit confusion
4-Jul-2016 Korea Herald
South Korea is ramping up its negotiations on free trade agreements to tackle the economic confusion from Brexit, scouting for new markets and making sure it is part of numerous regional pacts.
S Korea to review free trade accord with EU
28-Jun-2016 SME Times
The South Korean government said that it will review the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed with the European Union (EU) following Britain’s exit from the bloc.
South Korea, India to enhance free trade deal
24-Jun-2016 Tax News
South Korea and India have agreed to enter into talks aimed at re-negotiating the terms of their existing bilateral Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, particularly to improve the list of traded goods subject to reduced tariffs.
Seoul prefers ISDS for its investment chapter but could consider ICS
20-Jun-2016 Vieuws
High-level South Korean diplomats have expressed their preference for the old investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system over the Investment Court System (ICS) in the framework of a future investment chapter in the EU-South Korea FTA.
Korea-Colombia FTA to be effective July
16-Jun-2016 Korea Herald
Colombia informed South Korea earlier in the day that it has completed the ratification process of the deal clinched in 2013, adding that the deal will go into effect on July 15.
Over 40 pct of local cow farms closed since KORUS FTA: report
8-Jun-2016 Yonhap
More than four out of 10 South Korean cow farms have shut down in the last four years since the implementation of the free trade deal between Seoul and Washington.
S. Korea to launch FTA negotiations with Israel next month
25-May-2016 Yonhap
South Korea said that it has come to an agreement with Israel to begin negotiations next month on a free trade deal that could further boost bilateral trade.
S. Korea to hold new round of talks for FTA with Central America
24-May-2016 Korea Times
South Korea will hold a fresh round of negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with six Central American countries.
Renegotiation of Korea-US FTA may dent alliance: Seoul officials
16-May-2016 Korea Times
A demand to renegotiate the terms of a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States may very well mean the end of the bilateral trade pact, if not the countries’ alliance.
South Korea seeks new bilateral trade deal with Mexico
4-Apr-2016 Reuters
South Korea is looking to sign a new bilateral trade deal with Mexico, the country’s top commercial partner in Latin America.
U.S. animal product imports rise after FTA
23-Mar-2016 Korea Herald
Imports of animal products from the U.S. increased after a bilateral free trade agreement went into effect.
Food is not a commodity
5-Feb-2016 ISC
Kim-Hwang Kyeongsan, General Secretary of the Korean Woman Peasants’ Association, explains the government’s recent rice policy that hurts rice farmers and impacts Korea’s food sovereignty and how FTAs make it worse.
Court ordered disclosure of the negotiating documents of KorUS FTA
26-Jan-2016 Occupy FTA
The Korean Administrative Court in Seoul held that the negotiating documents of the KorUS FTA be disclosed.
Japan, China, South Korea fail to set goals for trade deal
20-Jan-2016 The Japan Times
High-ranking negotiators from Japan, China and South Korea failed to set goals for how far they want to open their markets in the latest round of talks on a three-way free trade accord.