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The European Union–South Korea Free Trade Agreement is a free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and South Korea. The agreement was signed on 15 October 2009. [ 1 ] The agreement was provisionally applied from 1 July 2011, [ 2 ] and entered into force from 13 December 2015, after having been ratified by all signatories.
The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs) [1] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries worldwide and is negotiating with many others. [2] The European Union negotiates free trade deals on behalf of all of its member states, as the member states have granted the EU has an "exclusive competence" to ...
The European Union (EU) and South Korea are important trade partners: As of April 2023, Korea is the EU's third-largest importer. Excluding European countries, Korea has secured the third place on the list, following China and the United States. [1] And the EU is Korea's third largest export destination. [2]
"In this case, the direct negative impact to South Korea's exports could be limited, as the share of food-related Korean exports to the United States is only 0.3% of Korea's total exports or 1.5% ...
see European Union–South Korea Free Trade Agreement; enforced provisionally from 2011 and fully from 2015; [2] EU's first trade agreement with environmental and labour components [3] 7 Peru 16 March 2009 21 March 2011 1 August 2011 see South Korea–Peru Free Trade Agreement: 8 United States 5 June 2006 30 June 2007 15 March 2012
There are a number of trade conflicts between the two powers, but both depend on the other's economic market and disputes only affect 2% of total trade. A free trade area between the two would represent potentially the largest regional free-trade agreement in history, covering 46% of world GDP. [30] [31]
In 2007, the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between EU and the Republic of Korea started, entering into force in July 2011. [6] The EU Gateway Programme to the Republic of Korea was launched in 2008 during the FTA consultations aiming to accompany the implementation of the agreement along the way, marking a new era in EU Gateway history.
Before increasing economic sanctions against the DPRK in 2016, the DPRK's external trade to the EU accounted for less than 0.5% of the country's total external trade. [6] The EU has put into place restrictions on member state interactions to the DPRK as well, such as restrictions of certain services and financial support for DPRK external trade.