Brussels, 29/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - Meeting up at the OECD's ministerial meeting in Paris on Thursday 25 June, the European Commissioner, Catherine Ashton and the South Korean minister for trade, Kim Jong-Hoon, agreed to conclude “in the near future” a free-trade agreement between the EU and South Korea. Negotiations in this connection began in May 2007 but are still stalling on two key questions, duty drawbacks and rules of origin (EUROPE 9898 and 9906). “Both sides agreed to...