Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has met with European Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels, where they have both taken aim at the isolationism and protectionism promoted by US President Donald Trump.
The Seoul government is committed to defend the 513-percent duties on rice imports amid protracted verification process from the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs said in a statement Monday.
South Korea on Thursday expressed concerns over Canada's provisional safeguard measure against the country's steel products, claiming such a measure hurts free trade.
The European Commission has signalled that it is set to impose steel import safeguards from all origins as a response to the import surge into the EU resulting from the US steel tariff hike March 2018.
India is considering imposing an anti-dumping duty of USD 114.58 (EUR 100.64) per tonne on imports of textured tempered coated and uncoated glass from Malaysia, it was announced last week.
South Korea's industry ministry said Friday it plans to work closely with local exporters to take joint action against protectionism policies in China and the United States.