This study sheds light on the effects of FTAs on outward and inward FDI in Korea. It finds that there has been an upsurge in overseas investments made by Korea through the FTAs. The FTAs have encouraged vertical investments in developing countries as cheap manufacturing bases and horizontal...

최근 환경산업은 지속성장 측면에서 새로운 성장동력으로 주목받고 있다. 그러나 아직까지 환경상품의 정의 및 범위 설정에 대한 국제적 합의는 이루어지지 않고 있다. WTO 환경협상에서는 환경상품에 대한 정의 문제가...

Trade-related issues such as market access and tariff elimination or reduction have been the main concerns of free trade agreements or FTAs since the early 2000s. With more attention recently given to the concept of sustainable development, however, a growing number of countries start to share a...

Ever since the 1990s, there has been a stream of unofficial studies and reviews discussing the possibility of a US-EU FTA. The average tariff rates for manufactured goods, however, in the US and EU are each a mere 2.0% and 2.4%, and both possess largely open economies. In this context it was...

The rise of global value chains has changed the trade and investment patterns in East Asia. The intra-regional trade of intermediate goods in East Asia turned out to increase compared to the EU and the US, and East Asian value chains have grown rapidly in recent years. This paper calculates the...