SOUTH KOREAN SEAFOOD INDUSTRY FIGHTS TO BOOST EXPORTS AS SUPPLY PROBLEMS LOOM
October 1st, 2007
BY KARRYN CARTELLE
THE SIGNING of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States is expected to fuel an already booming seafood trade. And with the Koreans having a host of other FTAs in the works, it appears this seafood-producing nation will use free trade agreements to push its seafood products to every continent.
South Korea has already secured free trade agreements with Chile; Singapore; the four nations represented by the European Free Trade Association (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein); and with the 10 ...
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