CPTPP Stop Gyeongnam Movement Headquarters launched in South Korea

(Changwon = Yonhap News) Reporter Han Ji-eun = Gyeongnam Province's farmers and fishermen's groups and civil society groups opposing the accession of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) formed the 'CPTPP Stop Gyeongnam Movement Headquarters (hereafter Gyeongnam Headquarters)' on the 2nd. did. The Gyeongnam Headquarters held a series of discussion forums and organization meetings in the conference room of the Gyeongnam Provincial Assembly on the same day, and agreed to block the CPTPP on the grounds of damage to farmers and fishermen and threats to national health. The group was concerned that tariff easing would directly damage agriculture, fisheries, livestock, and forestry, and that imports of foreign agri-food, which had been regulated for reasons such as diseases, could come into Korea and have a negative impact on food. Gyeongnam Headquarters declared the formation of the 'CPTPP Stop ...