Woo Tae-Hee, rechts, Assistant commerce Minister für das Südkoreanische Ministerium für Handel, Industrie und Energie spricht an der fünften Runde der Chinesisch-japanische - Korea
Woo Tae-Hee, right, assistant commerce minister of South Korea's Ministry of Trade Industry and Energy, speaks at the Fifth Round of China-Japan-Korea FTA Negotiations in Beijing, China, 1 September 2014. China, Japan and South Korea will hold the sixth round of talks for a trilateral free trade agreement this week, after Beijing and Seoul finished the talks for a bilateral FTA, South Korea¯s trade ministry said. The sixth round will be held from Monday (24 November 2014) to Friday in Tokyo, said the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Negotiations for the trilateral FTA were launched in November 2012. In the past two years, the three sides discussed various areas, including goods, services, investment, competition, intellectual property rights, e-commerce and environment, under the principle of achieving a comprehensive and high-level FTA, the ministry said. During the upcoming round, delegates from the three countries will focus mainly on discussing modality, or basic guideline, goods liberalization and how to liberalize services and investment.
