• 무역학회지
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.127-142
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• 2019

As Korea's steel industry exports 38 percent of its total steel production, the future management environment of the steel industry will change depending on the outcome of the FTA negotiations. The overall industrial structure of the domestic steel industry depends on the rules of origin, which are directly linked to the effect of concessionary tariffs. Therefore, negotiations on rules of origin are as important as tariff liberalization for Korea's steel industry. Korea's cold-rolled and plated companies are expected to be negatively affected as the country of origin standards of steel products have not considered the steel production processes in Korea. In future FTA talks, the country of origin rules should be agreed on a change of tariff classification basis. This result would secure a stable export market through increased predictability of steelmakers and reduce the risk of increased costs of oil and intangible products. In addition, the government should consider the structure of domestic supply and demand so that it does not impose constraints on the change of tariff classification. Finally, participants in the negotiations should consider the opinions of the domestic steel industry.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.475-498
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• 2013

FTA를 체결하는 가장 근본적인 이유는 FTA 체결국 상호간에 특혜관세를 적용받기 위해서이다. 특혜관세 적용을 받기 위해서는 협정에서 규정하고 있는 원산지결정기준을 충족해야 할 뿐만 아니라 이를 입증하는 원산지증명서가 반드시 있어야 한다. 한국 관세청에서는 전자통관시스템(UNI-PASS)과 원산지관리시스템(FTA-PASS)을, 대한상공회의소에서는 무역인증서비스를 제공하여 전자적으로 원산지증명서를 발급할 수 있는 환경이 마련되어 있다. 하지만 여전히 FTA 특혜원산지증명서 발급이 특혜 적용으로 인한 가격경쟁력 향상 보다는 주로 거래처의 요청에 의해 발급되고 있는 실정이다. FTA 체결국가가 증가함에 따라 FTA의 효과를 극대화 시킬 수 있도록 전자원산지증명서 발급의 정착 및 활성화가 시급하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 현행 우리나라에서 제공하고 있는 전자원산지증명서 발급시스템 구축현황을 검토한 후 이에 대한 문제점을 실무적 측면과 시스템적 측면으로 나누어 파악하고 이에 대한 개선방안을 제시하고자 하였다.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.233-266
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• 2005

The world trading system has been under many changes in recent years. One notably important development is that much attention away from the multilateralism-oriented World Trade Organization towards FTA(Free Trade Agreement). The Free Trade Agreement signed between korea and chile formally have been come effective for free trade in goods and services as from April 1, 2004. During Free Trade Agreement negotiations between both countries. This study aims at presenting the suggestion for the Korea to make the WTO rules and FTA by analyzing The interpretation of FTA under WTO System. It was founded by the investigation of WTO rules, most of the provisions are similar with other FTA, but a little provisions different from other FTA's. It is an appearance from the contracting party's peculiar circumstances such as state of industrial development or future prospect, conditions around international trade. The whole world has entered the new stage of bilateral and multilateral FTA. The essential or new generation or bilateral and multilateral FTA is creating more trade opportunities, promoting all factors, commodity, service, capital, technology and talent freely flow through canceling the trade barriers between FTA, in order to develop together within the regions. It shows that the cooperations transfer form the whole region into FTA. FTA makes not only the free trade smooth ,but also takes place the trade distortion effect. especially as the agriculture has a speciality each country, should it is ignored in negotiation, many reactions will be occurred in the process of fta Therefore Korea needs to deliver the message that Korea's hub is an essential ingredient for an efficient FTA and WTO system in a bilateral and multilateral win-win framework. Consequently Korea should have criterions about the rules of FTA and WTO system for peculiar circumstances of Korean economy and international trade.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.80-102
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• 2019

Purpose - This paper aims to articulate relationship about factors influencing FTA utilization by dividing them into company's external and internal factors and performing investigation on the relationship between FTA utilization and export performance. Design/methodology - This study verified factors influencing FTA utilization by dividing them into company's external and internal factors and performing investigation on the relationship between FTA utilization and export performance. Empirical analysis was performed by setting internal and external factors required for FTA utilization as variables. To achieve this, research model was established based on previous study, hypothesis was deduced, and statistical program were used to test the hypothesis. This study performed empirical analysis using statistical program of SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0 for the research model. Findings - Empirical analysis was performed regarding the effect of the FTA utilization on export performance and previous study defined export performance as the company's increased economy benefits through export and increase in new transactions. Analysis was also performed for factors affecting the FTA utilization by the company and through management and response of external factors and internal factors it was confirmed that the FTA utilization by the company led to increase in the company's export performance as a result. This study proposes a method to achieve export performance based on this. Originality/value - Companies seeking to utilize the FTA sign the Contract for the International Sale of goods and there are many conditions to meet in order to receive trade preferences during the transaction process. Existing trade order and order in the FTA have to be followed. Country of origin can be seen as key in the FTA. The Rule of Origin becomes the most important evaluation standard in applying preferential tariff in the FTA. Such regulations can be seen as external factors which cannot be controlled by the company. Internal factors are capabilities owned before that can be controlled by the company. The study sought to test the variables regarding factors centered on such capability. This study verified factors influencing FTA utilization by dividing them into company's external and internal factors and performing investigation on the relationship between FTA utilization and export performance.

• 무역학회지
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.63-87
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• 2016

최근 노동비용 상승 등에도 불구하고 세계 최고수준의 외국인 직접투자 및 대다수 글로벌 기업의 현지법인 진출 등으로 중국은 여전히 세계의 공장으로서 역할을 수행하고 있다. 또한 글로벌 기업의 중국현지 공장에서 생산하는 제품에 대해서는 원산지규정에 충족할 경우 2015년 발효된 한중 FTA 혜택을 누릴 수 있다. 이러한 이유로, 대표적인 한중 FTA 수혜산업인 화학산업을 한국과 중국의 관점이 아닌, 글로벌 관점에서 분석할 경우 우리나라 화학산업에 부정적인 결과를 초래할 수 있음을 화장품 기타제품을 사례로 분석해보았다. 분석결과 한국은 해당 제품군에서 중심국가에 위치하지 못하고 주변국에 속하여, 중국내 기초화장품 및 메이크업 등의 공장을 보유하고 있는 다국적 기업에 의한 한국 수출이 증가할 가능성이 있음을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 한중 FTA를 헤쳐 나가기 위한 화학산업계의 정책적 대안으로 첫째, 중국시장으로 직접진출을 꺼려하는 글로벌 화학기업들의 적극적 유치와 둘째, 향후 성장성이 높은 화학제품군에 대한 지속적인 투자를 제시하였다.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.347-353
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• 2014

The purpose of this research was to present the possibility of an alternative production base for clothing business of South Korea through the analysis about textile/clothing industry production activities in the Gaeseong industrial complex. It is necessary for the Gaeseong industrial complex to cope with the issue about FTA and country of origin, manpower supply and demand, paying wages and labor productivity, the exclusive industrial complex of clothing. The Country of Origin on imports and exports tells the country of manufacture or production, where the product comes from. Rules of Origin are the special regulations to determine the country of origin of a product and exist in the forms of international law, legislation, precedent and administrative decisions. But the economy in the North and the Gaeseong industrial complex is a comparative advantage combined with elements of North-South interdependence as a South-North economic cooperation business and can contribute significantly to the stabilization of the North-South relations. Among the models using criteria of the determination of origin, it has directly provided the models of general regulation for offshore products, of limited offshore products. These models are to help Korean exporters in understanding and utilizing the Rules of Origin for their manufacturing. In addition, the development of the Gaeseong industrial complex will contribute to establish peace on the Korean peninsula as well as in Northeast Asia. Also economic cooperation between South and North Koreas is essential for peace and prosperity of the Korean people.

• Journal of Evidence-Based Herbal Medicine
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2008

Nowadays the flow of international trade is that there seems to appear economic block significantly because most countries contract FTAs, so our market condition is changing to a severe competitive situation. Korea which has 70% of foreign dependence of trade must get involved in regionalism, and also actively promote FTA more than any other countries. FTA on February in 2006, the pharmaceutical industry are anxious. The pharmaceutical industry in Korea has recently come to a crisis that it is hard to expect a growth due to structure of profit and a change for the worse of management. If Korea-U.S. FTA are contracted in this kind of situation, domestic pharmaceutical companies will be at stake. We can anticipate that FTA with the country that has a strong competitive power like U.S. affect negatively on pharmaceutical industry, because the industry doesn't have enough self-competitiveness. Considering this kind of surroundings, we need to present the policy to enhance competitiveness for damage limitation on pharmaceutical industry by Korea-U.S. FTA. Under this background, this research has groped for a direction to strengthen the competitiveness to develop pharmaceutical industry in quality. The competitive enhancement plan is presented which is divided into the government policy part, the R&D part, and the management part. Although Korea-U.S. FTA is analyzed to wither the pharmaceutical industry, it would be thought that it is a good chance to upgrade domestic pharmaceutical industry if we make the best use of it, and also to make in roads into foreign market.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제8권spc1호
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• pp.391-409
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• 2005

Free trade agreements have fast grown into a global phenomenon and their impact and repercussions are felt more strongly everyday. Korea, joining this large trend of the global economy, is currently pressing ahead with its negotiation rounds for FTA. In this paper, we focus on the e-commerce sector affected by the Korea-Singapore FTA, and the main issues and the future countermeasure directions of e-commerce on FTA has been analyzed. In conclusion, FTA is not an option even though there are still many remaining issues to be discussed regarding its effects. We identified countries excluding themselves from FTA are losing international competitiveness, and moreover, the losing competitiveness will end up more serious problems since the importance of FTA is especially high for e-commerce, as e-commerce accounts for a growing share of international trade. This paper also discusses the far-reaching potential consequences of the content of an international agreement at a government-to-government level on the economy and industry of a country by presenting past examples from. Korea, and recommends that policy-makers should exercise extreme vigilance in their negotiation of terms and conditions for FTA.

• 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국디지털정책학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.33-40
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• 2007

The Customs Administration, unlike other administrative service, should respond to constantly changing external environment. The Customs has to actively adapt itself to government policy changes, economic changes and international environment changes to facilitate the flow of trade logistics and maintain trading relations wi th other countries. The purpose of this paper is to explain policy directions of the Korea Customs Service which enforces various policies related to tariff and non-tariff barrier elimination for the trade liberalization while the Korean government is pursuing FTAs on a multi-track basis. This paper aims to seek ways to apply FTA policies to the Korean society and economy in a smooth manner. First of all, this paper examines changes in Customs administration brought by the proliferation of FTAs to such areas as FTA negotiations, import/export management, duties and taxes collection, drawback reduction/exempt ion of duty application area of preferential tariff rate and country of origin management. Then, the paper sets FTA missions of "supporting Customs Administration to lead the new trend of free trade environment" after analyzing the environment changes. To achieve the FTA mission mentioned above, the KCS designated 4 strategies and 40 implementation tasks. The 4 strategies are named "4C Strategies" taking initial letters from Client-oriented, Customized procedures, Cooperation and Constitution. "4C" also refers to Foresee(strategies to foresee the successful establishment of FTA policies) or For C(Customer or Customs). The KCS will continue to create new tasks through various channels and monitor their implementation process, and to help FTA regime successfully take root in Korea.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.307-330
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• 2014

본 논문은 한 중간 FTA 협상 타결을 앞두고 중요한 의제로 등장하고 있는 기술무역장벽의 규모 추정을 위하여 전통적인 가격차(Price Wedge) 모형을 응용하여 한 중간 TBT 규모를 실증적으로 추정하였다. 본 연구에서는 World Bank의 9개국 HS 코드와 JETRO의 AIO 코드를 결합하여 TBT 추정에 활용한 바, 개별 국가나 개별 산업분석의 틀을 넘어 주요 9개국 제조업 전산업으로 분석의 대상 범위를 확장하여 실증분석에 활용하였다는 점에서 연구의 가치가 높다고 하겠다. 실증분석 결과 중국의 수출품에 대한 한국의 TBT 상당액 상위 품목과 무역비중 상위품목이 유사하다는 점에서 TBT의 중요성을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 한국과 중국 양국이 서로에게 공통적으로 큰 TBT를 부과하는 품목들의 경우 중국이 한국에 부과하는 TBT가 한국이 중국에 부과하는 TBT에 비해 규모가 매우 크다는 점에서 향후 중국과의 FTA 협상에서 TBT에 대한 적극적 대응 필요성을 시사한다고 하겠다.