Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Korea

and the United States of America

 

 

                                                        Signed in Washington D.C. on  June 30, 2007

 

Preamble

 

  1. Initial Provisions and Definitions

 

  1. National Treatment and Market Access for Goods

Annex 2-A: National Treatment and Import and Export Restrictions

Annex 2-B: Tariff Elimination 

Korea General Notes

Korea Tariff Schedule

Appendix 2-B-1 Korea Tariff Rate Quotas

US General Notes

US Tariff Schedule

Appendix 2-B-1 US Tariff Rate Quotas

 

  1. Agriculture

Annex 3-A: Agricultural Safeguard Measures

 

  1. Textiles and Apparel

Annex 4-A: Specific Rules of Origin for Textile or Apparel Goods

Annex 4-B: Fibers, Yarns, and Fabrics Not Available in Commercial Quantities

Appendix 4-B-1: Fibers, Yarns, and Fabrics Not Available in Commercial Quantities

 

  1. Pharmaceutical  Products and Medical Devices

 

Confirmation letter (Independent Review Process) Korea  United States   

 

  1. Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures

Annex 6-A: Specific Rules of Origin

Appendix 6-A-1: Correlation Table for Footwear

Annex 6-B: Exceptions to Article 6.6

 

  1. Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation

 

  1. Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

 

  1. Technical Barriers to Trade

Annex 9-A: Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade

Annex 9-B: Automotive Working Group

 

Confirmation letter (Specific Autos Regulatory Issues) Korea  United States

 

  1. Trade Remedies

 

  1. Investment

Annex 11-A: Customary International Law

Annex 11-B: Expropriation

Annex 11-C: Service of Documents on a Party under Section B

Annex 11-D: Possibility of a Bilateral Appellate Mechanism

Annex 11-E: Submission of a Claim to Arbitration

Annex 11-F: Taxation and Expropriation

Annex 11-G: Transfers

 

Confirmation letter (Property Rights) Korea  United States

 

  1. Cross-Border Trade in Services

Annex 12-A: Professional Services

Appendix 12-A-1: Sectors for Mutual Recognition and Temporary Licensing

Annex 12-B: Express Delivery Services

Annex 12-C: Consultations Regarding Non-Conforming Measures Maintained by a Regional Level of Government

 

Confirmation letter (Understandings of both sides) Korea  United States

Confirmation letter (Gambling) Korea  United States

Confirmation letter (Express Delivery Services – International Delivery) Korea  United States

Confirmation letter (PIT test) Korea  United States

 

  1. Financial Services

Annex 13-A: Cross-Border Trade

Annex 13-B: Specific Commitments

Annex 13-C: Financial Services Committee

Annex 13-D: Supply of Insurance by the Postal Services to the Public

 

Confirmation letter (Cross-border Trade, New Financial Services etc.)

                              United States  Korea

 

  1. Telecommunications

Annex 14-A: Suppliers of Public Telecommunications Services

Annex 14-B: Additional Obligations Relating to Major Supplies

 

  1. Electronic Commerce

 

  1. Competition-Related Matters

 

  1. Government Procurement

Annex 17-A: Government Procurement

 

  1. Intellectual Property Rights

 

Confirmation letter (Internet Service Provider) Korea  United States

Confirmation letter (Promoting Protection and Effective Enforcement of Copyrighted works on University Campuses)

 Korea  United States

Confirmation letter (Online Piracy Prevention) Korea  United States

Confirmation letter (Dispute Settlement Regarding Patent Linkage)

United States  Korea

 

 

  1. Labor

Annex 19-A: Labor Cooperation Mechanism

 

Confirmation letter (Public Communication) United States  Korea

 

  1. Environment

 

Confirmation letter (Public Participation) United States  Korea

Confirmation letter (Equivalence in Environmental Laws)

                              Korea  United States

                                                                                                                              

  1. Transparency

 

  1. Institutional Provisions and Dispute Settlement

Annex 22-A: Alternative Procedures for Disputes Concerning Motor Vehicles

Annex 22-B: Committee on Outward Processing Zones on the Korean Peninsula

Annex 22-C: Fisheries Committee

 

  1. Exceptions

 

  1. Final Provisions

 

Annex I (Non-conforming measures for services and investment)

Explanatory Notes

Korea

United States

Appendix I-A

 

Annex II (Non-conforming measures for services and investment)

Explanatory Notes

Korea

Appendix II-A

United States

Appendix II-A

 

Annex III (Non-conforming measures for financial services)

Korea  

Appendix III-A

United States

 

 

 Letter (Fibers, Yarns, and Fabrics Not Available in Commercial Quantities)

United States    

 Letter (Express Delivery Services – Domestic Reform) Korea

 Letter (Access to and Use of the Internet) United States  Korea

 Letter (Publication) Korea  United States

 

 Letter (Dispute Settlement for Labor/Environment) United States  Korea

 

 

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