한-중 FTA 협상 관점에서 바라본 지역화 (Regionalization) 규정의 적용과 의미

(Implications of the Application of Regionalization under the Korea-China Free Trade Agreement)

This paper analyzes the ‘regionalization’ regulations under the World Trade Organization, and the World Organization for Animal Health and suggests its implications in the context of the Korea-China Free Trade Agreement negotiations. Regionalization recognizes different status of risk managements across regions and allows differentiated sanitary and phytosanitary measures in agricultural trades. Although some vagueness remains and fewtrade disputes are pending, regionalization is likely to be the norm of trade and be sought by China during the FTA negotiations. This paper suggests that Korea meet the challenge with only a minimal amount of rule specifications. This paper, however, identifies the so-called ‘functional regionalization’ could be a beneficial strategy in the long run.