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  • 4-Apr-2007 Hankyoreh
    Civic groups continue rally against SK-US trade deal
    With South Korea and the United States forging a free trade agreement on April 2, civic groups here were ratcheting up their opposition to the economic pact, blaming the government for "giving up our sovereignty in return for nothing."
  • 4-Apr-2007 CBC
    US free trade deal with South Korea gives push to Canada’s talks, official says
    "For the Koreans, the US was a priority so now that that is out of the way, we’re hopeful we’ll reach an agreement in the near future," a Canadian government official said Tuesday.
  • 4-Apr-2007 USTR
    US-Korea FTA (2007): US summary of agreement
    Published by USTR
  • 4-Apr-2007 Yomiuri Shimbun
    US-ROK pact may prompt govt to rethink FTA stance
    The Japanese government is likely to reconsider its stance on free trade agreements in light of a pact concluded Monday between South Korea and the United States
  • 4-Apr-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Nigeria: Between trade agreements and poverty impact
    EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson admitted that if the EPA negotiation does not finish this year, there are options available which he termed as expensive and not so good.
  • 3-Apr-2007 FTA Watch
    FTA Watch and allies reject JTEPA
    Today is a day of the deepest shame for Thailand and the Tai people. The coup-installed government of Gen Surayuth Chulanon has decided to sign a free trade agreement with Japan. This is in spite of the nation-wide impact that this agreement will have on the environment, biological resources, farmers, patients, small businesses and the majority consumers of health services. We insist that JTEPA as signed by the government today is null and void. We reject it and refute any obligations it places on the Thai people.
  • 3-Apr-2007 MOFA
    Japan-Thailand FTA (JTEPA, 2007)
  • 3-Apr-2007 MCOT
    Thai, Japanese leaders ink free trade pact
    Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on Tuesday signed a landmark free trade accord which proponents in Thailand hope will boost bilateral trade, but which has drawn protests from non-governmental organisations and environmental activists.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Hankyoreh
    SK-US FTA, as it stands, should not be accepted
    Little was gained for Korea in the negotiations and the final draft reflects mostly an acceptance of American demands, writes The Hankyoreh.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Kyodo
    Japan mulls FTA study with US, ready to resume talks with S. Korea
    Japan will study the pros and cons of a free trade agreement with the United States and is ready to restart FTA talks with South Korea, Cabinet ministers said Tuesday following a deal Washington and Seoul struck Monday.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Hankyoreh
    SK reportedly agrees to nix testing US genetically modified crops
    South Korea has reportedly exempted US foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from safety tests in the Korea-US free trade agreement struck on April 2, a move that Korean environmentalists criticised as the government "selling off" the health of the nation.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Hankyoreh
    FTA protestor who immolated himself in serious condition
    Heo Se-ok, who set himself on fire on April 1 in protest of the Korean government’s moves to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US, still remains in serious condition with burns over 63 percent of body, hospital officials said. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions issued a statement holding the government responsible for Heo’s taking of extreme measures to protest the situation.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Korea Times
    Trade pact risks environment, public health
    For the past few years, the backers and denouncers of a free trade accord between Korea and the United States have feuded like the Montagues and Capulets. Not surprisingly, the two camps are still polarized on whether the trade pact bringing together the world’s largest and 10th largest economies is destined to be a happy marriage or Shakespearean tragedy.
  • 3-Apr-2007 One World
    US-Korea trade deal disappoints labor, rights activists
    Trade unionists on both sides of the Pacific expressed disappointment Monday after the United States and South Korea agreed the biggest US trade pact in 15 years with only minutes to go before a deadline.
  • 3-Apr-2007 USTR
    US 2007 National Trade Estimate report on foreign trade barriers
    The 2007 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE) is the twenty-first in an annual series that surveys significant foreign barriers to US exports.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Voiceofpeople
    Self burning against Kor-US FTA
    A taxi driver Heo Seuk, 54 years old man, burnned himself and left his last speech, "Give up the KorUS FTA". He was in the fire for 2 minutes and the ambulance arrived 5 minutes later. Fortunately he is alive now. But his doctor Lee Jeongsub explained that the probability that he would survive is 20 30 percent.
  • 2-Apr-2007
    Korea-US FTA faces tough scrutiny, debate in US by industries, Congress
    New political and economic opportunities opened for South Korea and the United States with the free trade agreement (FTA) announced Monday, but the way ahead for the deal in Washington still has uncertainties, and even risks.
  • 2-Apr-2007
    FTA with Japan ’could hurt education sector’
    The Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) could put Thailand at a disadvantage if it focuses more on competition than on co-operation in educational services, participants at a brainstorming session claimed yesterday.
  • 2-Apr-2007 Hankyoreh
    US-Korea FTA (2007): Korean summary of agreement
    The following is a summary of the free trade agreement (FTA) reached between South Korea and the United States Monday.
  • 2-Apr-2007 Yonhap
    Labor groups boycott S Korea-US FTA deal
    Korean labor groups voiced their strong opposition to the just-reached deal between South Korea and the United States to effectively dismantle their tariff barriers. The groups vowed to launch a campaign to nullify the free trade agreement deal (FTA) and even threatened to attempt to oust President Roh Moo-hyun.