South Korean free-trade deal is long overdue
March 14, 2011
The following is excerpted from the 13 March 2011 edition of "globeandmail.com".
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?
It’s not that the Harper government isn’t hot on free trade. Ottawa is forging ahead on other deals with Europe, India, Ukraine and Colombia. It’s pursuing perimeter security and regulatory harmonization talks with the United States. And it’s in preliminary talks on a possible trade deal with Japan...
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