SOUTH KOREA’S FASHION SECTOR SEES OPPORTUNITIES IN CHINA-SOUTH KOREA FTA

SOUTH Korea clothing executives have welcomed the bilateral free trade agreement signed on Tuesday (November 11) between China and South Korea, telling just-style this should ease the export of South Korean clothing exports to China. No details on rules of origin and duty elimination have been revealed, but South Korean textile industry insiders are nonetheless optimistic. “In case China opens its clothing market at zero duty immediately, we will have chance to extend our fashion exports to China,” Kim Bu Heung, director of the Korea Federation of Textile ...


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