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A Study on the Trade Law Conformity of Korean Shipping Policies

우리나라 주요 해운정책의 통상법적 합치성 분석 연구

  • Young-Gyun Ahn (Korea Maritime Institute) ;
  • Min-Kyu Lee (Graduate School of Management of Technology, Pukyong National University)
  • 안영균 (한국해양수산개발원) ;
  • 이민규 (부경대학교 기술경영전문대학원 )
  • Received : 2022.11.09
  • Accepted : 2022.12.19
  • Published : 2022.12.30
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Abstract

This study conducted a conformity review of Korean shipping industry policy and suggested that the Korean five-year shipping reconstruction policy has not violated the WTO (World Trade Organization) trade law agreement yet. In order to investigate the latest Korean shipping policy, domestic and foreign reports were reviewed, and after that, the WTO's published data and domestic and foreign journals were analyzed. Through this process, this study tried to review the conformity of trade laws by major Korean shipping policies. The shipping industry is a representative service industry, and subsidies for this are not subject to WTO-level regulation in principle. The purpose of Korean shipping industry policy is to support the shipping industry, a type of service industry, and even if the ship-building and manufacturing industries (shipper) indirectly spread benefits in the process, this is unintentional or private-level support. That is, this study concluded that It is understood that Korea's five-year shipping reconstruction policy does not violate the WTO trade law agreement.

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Acknowledgement

This study was conducted based on the "Major Shipping Industry Support Policy Case Study (2021.9)" ordered by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) and with the publication fee support from the 'A Study on the Implementation for the introduction of Coastal Passenger Ship Public System' ordered by MOF.

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