Despite the proliferation of regional trade agreements between nations today, academics and policy makers alike have yet to fully understand what aims trading nations have when they pursue free trade agreements. This paper provides an explanation that an RTA is a contract through which RTA...

In this chapter, I review Korea's legislative framework of free trade agreement negotiations and administration of FTAs. In particular, focus is on the trade in goods, including the administration of rules of origin and tariff reduction chapters of enacted FTAs. The first part of this paper...