Officials of South Korea and the United States will meet in Washington this week
to check on the implementation of the free trade agreement between the two
countries, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
Seoul and Washington
have established the minister-level Joint Committee and 19 subcommittees and
working groups to oversee the implementation of the landmark trade pact that
went into force in March.
Of them, the committees on trade in goods,
trade remedy, service and investment, and the working group on small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will hold two days of meetings in Washington
from Thursday, the ministry said.
The committee on trade in goods will
talk about issues like customs and places of origin while the trade remedy
committee will discuss carrying out obligations specified in the agreement, the
ministry said.
The SMEs committee will discuss how to help smaller
firms take better advantage of the pact.
South Korea's delegation is
led by Choi Dong-gyou, a director general at the foreign ministry, and also
includes officials from the finance ministry, the justice ministry, the Korea
Customs Service and the agency handling SMEs affairs, the ministry said.