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The paper attempts to assess the benefits of Duty-Free and Quota-Free Market (DFQF) access initiatives of the Republic of Korea for least developed countries (LDCs), which have been in place since 1 January 2008. Following a brief introduction on the background of this initiative, this paper examines the exports profile of LDCs, reviews the DFQF sc...
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... However, Korea has shown little leadership and only limited followership in these fields. Some calculations show that only about 36% of imports from Least Developed Countries are duty free (Khan and Farhad 2009). Korea also committed itself to a gradual extension of duty free access during the G20 summit in Seoul (G20 2010) although it objected the inclusion of a numerical target of 100% coverage. ...
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