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CCTV News
| Aug 24, 2012
Jang Sung-taek, the uncle of Kim Jong-un, met with Chinese officials this past week to create two economic zones in the DPRK near the Chinese border. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reports on what the trade deals mean for North Korean economic ref...
LinkAsia
| Mar 23, 2012
Critics are focusing on the Investor-State Dispute clause in the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement. Negotiations over the ISD will start within 90 days after FTA goes into effect. There is disagreement about whether the clause should be removed ...
LinkAsia
| Mar 23, 2012
Taiwanese officials believe that South Korea's Free Trade Agreement with the US will cost the country over USD$3 billion in lost trade. A dispute over a ban of a chemical additive in US beef is holding up Taiwan's own FTA with the US. Contributor ...
LinkAsia
| Dec 8, 2011
Large protests have erupted in Seoul, led by small business owners and farmers, against the South Korean government's Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Yoo Eun Lee of Global Voices Online reports.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Nov 22, 2011
South Korea's ruling party has ratified a controversial free trade deal with the United States despite opposition MP Kim Sun-dong letting off a tear gas device, briefly clearing the chamber.
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 13, 2011
The US congress has approved free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, ending a four-year drought in the forming of new trade partnerships. Al Jazeera's Andy Gallacher reports on arguments for and against the agreements.
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...to develop a free trade zone in Nansha was seen by insiders as "a key move" for Guangdong to speed up its reform and economic development, follo...
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...Pacific Alliance was an outgrowth of the failure of the earlier Free Trade Area of the Americas, which attempted to link the economics of North,...
— Oct 2, 2012 at 12:44 pm
...if Egypt creates an alternative and open a joint free trade area between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) also...
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A free-trade area is a trade bloc whose member countries have signed a free-trade agreement, which eliminates tariffs, import quotas, and preferences on most goods and services traded between them. If people are also free to move between the countries, in addition to FTA, it would also be considered an open border. It can be considered the second stage of economic integration. Countries choose this kind of economic integration if their economical structures are complementary. If their economical structures are competitive, it is likely there will be no incentive for a FTA, or only selected areas of goods and services will be covered to fulfill the economic interests between the two signatories of FTA.
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