한-중 FTA의 환경과 무역 챕터에 대한 연구

Abstract

With the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, the environmental problem is becoming serious day by day. The environmental issues such as yellow dust, microdust, marine pollution are providing a serious damage to South Korea. Chinese government has recognized the problems and began to strengthen the environmental regulations, and recently the government announced the green growth as one of the national development strategies. Even though China has a series of regulations on environmental protection, the practical aspect is very weak. Mutual cooperation between Korea and China appears to be very important in solving environmental problems. The number of China's FTA which entered into force is fourteen, but amongst them, only China-Switzerland FTA and Korea-China FTA include the environment chapter. In the case of South Korea, it has a high level of environmental protection commitments in the FTAs signed with the developed countries such as the US and EU. This paper compared and analyzed the environment chapter of Korea-US FTA, Korea-EU FTA, China-Switzerland FTA and Korea-China FTA so as to make implications for the two states' environment cooperation.