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Ecuador-Korea
  Background and Negotiations
   

On 26 January 2016, officials from Ecuador and the Republic of Korea held the first round of negotiations towards a Strategic Agreement on Economic Cooperation. On December 1, 2017 Ecuador's Viceminister of Trade announced that his country and Korea will resume trade negotiations. On March 2, 2022 Ecuador and Korea agreed to restart the temporarily halted Korea-Ecuador Strategic Economic Complementation Agreement (SECA) negotiations.

On July 11, 2022, in Seoul, South Korea, began the sixth round of negotiation of the Strategic Economic Cooperation Agreement (SECA), which was carried out in a hybrid way with face-to-face sessions and virtual.

On October 7, 2022, the seventh round of negotiations of the Strategic Economic Complementation Agreement (SECA) between Ecuador and Korea ended, the chief negotiators of both countries announced the closure of three new tables regarding: competition, trade facilitation, and technical barriers to trade.The eighth round of negotiations took place in Quito, Ecuado on November 21-25, 2022.

Documents relating to the negotiations
21-25 November 2022 Eighth round of negotiations on the Strategic Economic Cooperation Agreement PDF new!
07 October 2022 Ecuador and South Korea hold seventh round of negotiations on the Strategic Economic Cooperation Agreement PDF
12 July 2022 Ecuador and South Korea hold a round of negotiations on the Strategic Economic Cooperation Agreement PDF new!
02 March 2022 Ecuador and Korea restart negotiations PDF
01 December 2017 Ecuador and Korea to resume trade negotiations Spanish PDF
26 January 2016 Quito, Ecuador. Korea and Ecuador hold first round of negotiations towards a Strategic Agreement on Economic Cooperation Spanish PDF
Source: Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica (ANDES); Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, Ecuador; Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korea

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Spanish version 
Recent Developments
 

21-25 November 2022. Eighth round of negotiations on the Strategic Economic Cooperation Agreement new!


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