Free Trade Area between the European Union and the Republic of Korea

Paweł Pasierbiak

Abstract


The author of the paper has focused on the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Korea, which came into force on 1 July 2011. The Agreement is the first concluded by the European Union with an Asian country and also, so far, it has the highest degree of complexity. In his research, the author concentrates on the presentation of changes in trade policies of both partners toward preferential trade arrangements (PTA), but he also describes most important provisions of the agreement on the liberalization of industrial goods, agricultural products and services.

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preferential trade agreements; FTA; foreign trade; the EU; Republic of Korea

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/h.2013.47.2.133
Date of publication: 2015-07-23 22:35:27
Date of submission: 2015-07-19 17:42:18


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