Canada-Korea
Canada and South Korea are currently negotiating an FTA. The talks began in July 2005 but are yet to be concluded.
Both countries are aiming for a comprehensive agreement, with the Canadian government’s sights set on increasing food and forestry exports to Korea. But the implications for Canada are huge. Canada currently imports more cars than it exports and a deal with Seoul — headquarters of KIA, Hyundai and Daewoo (GM) — could gut Canada’s industry and with it 15,000 jobs. Korean farmers, labour groups and consumers, for their part, expect negative impacts on Korean food and agriculture. This includes strong potential problems around beef (numerous outbreaks of mad cow disease have already occurred in Canada) and barley.
last update: May 2012 | logo from the Canadian Auto Workers Local 200
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21-Jun-2012 Arirang News Korea, Canada agree to resume free trade negotiations
Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have agreed to re-open negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement within this year. -
18-Oct-2011 Portage US-Korea trade deal hurts Canadian hog farmers
With the US Congress approving its free trade deal with South Korea last week, Canadian pork could soon be shut out of its third largest market. -
8-Jul-2011 Canadian agricultural commodity groups call for immediate resumption of free trade talks with South Korea
A coalition of Canadian agricultural commodity groups is calling on Canada’s premiers and agriculture ministers to express their support the immediate resumption of free trade talks with the Republic of Korea. -
15-Mar-2011 South Korean free-trade deal is long overdue
It is Canada’s forgotten trade deal. Free trade negotiations with South Korea began in 2004. And nearly seven years later, there’s still no pact. Why? -
13-Jan-2011 Better Farming Pork industry wants feds to cut a Korean trade deal
Canadian pork producers and packers fear consequences of lagging behind Chile, United States and Europe in key Asian market -
7-Dec-2010 CTV S. Korean trade deals put pressure on Canada
Canadian companies risk losing ground in South Korea now that both the United States and the European Union have sealed free-trade deals with the Asian export powerhouse. -
8-Dec-2009 Korea Herald Seoul willing to lift ban on Canadian beef
Korea is wiling to lift its six-year-old ban on Canadian beef, President Lee Myung-bak sad yesterday after a summit with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. -
9-Apr-2009 Day upset over South Korea’s Canadian beef ban
Trade Minister Stockwell Day, in Asia on a 10-day mission, took steps Thursday to improve Canada’s trading partnerships in the region even as relations with South Korea worsened over that country’s "unjustified ban" of Canadian beef. -
9-Apr-2009 Canada-Korea Trade Deal ’Will Take More Time’
New South Korean Ambassador Ha Chan-ho says the financial crisis has put the brakes to finishing the Canada-Korea free trade agreement. -
10-Nov-2008 Pueblo en Línea Corea del Sur niega posible renegociación del TLC con EEUU
El gobierno surcoreano descartó hoy lunes la posibilidad de una renegociación del tratado de libre comercio (TLC) con Estados Unidos, aunque se espera ampliamente que la nueva administración del país norteamericano adopte políticas de comercio proteccionistas. -
10-Dec-2007 KCTU CLC-KCTU joint statement on Korea-Canada free trade agreements
On the eve of the 12th round of negotiations between Canada and Korea for a trade deal, the Canadian Labour Congress and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, representing over four million workers in both countries, call on our respective governments to immediately halt these trade talks. -
5-Dec-2007 Presse Canadienne De sérieux obstacles dans les négociations de libre-échange du Canada avec la Corée du Sud
Les discussions pour un accord de libre-échange entre le Canada et la Corée du Sud se sont heurtées à de sérieux obstacles et pourraient se solder par un échec, a admis mardi le ministre canadien du Commerce, David Emerson. -
24-Nov-2007 Radio Canada Ford s’oppose à une entente de libre-échange
Le constructeur automobile Ford menace de ne plus investir au Canada si Ottawa signe une entente de libre-échange avec la Corée du Sud, sans que le pays asiatique lève ses restrictions sur les importations d’automobiles américaines. -
24-Nov-2007 Bloomberg Canada, South Korea pact not close, Flaherty says
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said his country and South Korea aren’t close to a free-trade agreement because the Asian nation hasn’t pledged adequate access to its market. -
23-Nov-2007 Ford warns Ottawa not to sign with South Korea
Ford may redirect future investment away from Canada if Ottawa concludes a free-trade deal with South Korea that doesn’t open up that country to auto imports, the company’s top Canadian executive said yesterday. -
24-Oct-2007 Canada Press Canada-South-Korea free trade deal would cost thousands of jobs, says union study
The Canadian Auto Workers has called on the three opposition parties in Ottawa to vote down any Canada-Korea free trade agreement in order to save Canadian jobs. CAW’s internal analysis predicts the trade deal would cost over 33,000 jobs. -
24-Oct-2007 Reuters Canada aims to match US-Korea trade deal: minister
Canada is entering a difficult final phase of free-trade negotiations with South Korea and needs to secure a deal if it wants to be able to compete with the United States in Asia, Trade Minister David Emerson said on Tuesday. -
9-Oct-2007 CTV New FTAs could worsen Canadian auto deficit: CAW
"A free trade deal with Korea will take a bad situation and make it worse...The government should cancel these talks," said Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove. -
7-Oct-2007 Yonhap Seoul, Ottawa to focus on barley, bean in free trade agreement talks
South Korea and Canada will focus on barley, bean, potato and other farm products in free trade agreement talks that reopen in Ottawa this week -
6-Jun-2007 Korea’s U.S. Trade Treaty Could Pave Way for Canadian Pact
Canadian trade officials will be carefully examining the free trade agreement recently inked by South Korea and the United States and applying any lessons learned to their own ongoing negotiations with the Asian country.
