Assistant Minister for Trade meets with Dutch and Polish Vice Ministers to discuss industrial cooperation

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced that Yang Byeong-nae, Assistant Minister of Trade, met with Keith van der Burg, Netherlands Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Water Resources in Seoul on the 25th to discuss ways to cooperate in areas of interest to both countries, such as mobility, batteries, and supply chain.

The two sides confirmed that the follow-up measures for cooperation in areas such as semiconductors, supply chain, and carbon-free energy (CFE), which were concluded through summit diplomacy in December last year, are being implemented without a hitch, and agreed to cooperate in new high-tech industries such as electric vehicles, hydrogen vehicles, and batteries. We decided to expand the scope.

In particular, Assistant Minister Yang emphasized that Korea and the Netherlands are countries closely connected in the global supply chain centered on semiconductors, and that cooperation in the high-tech industry between the two countries contributes to stabilizing the global supply chain.

Assistant Minister Yang also requested that the Netherlands take interest in and cooperate with EU policies and legislation to prevent EU economic legislation, such as the Core Raw Materials Act and the Battery Act, from discriminating against offshore companies and affecting trade and investment between the two countries. I requested.

On this day, Deputy Minister Yang met with Polish Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Technology Jacek Tomczak, who was visiting Korea, and discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in areas such as trade and investment, industrial technology, and clean energy.

Deputy Minister Yang noted that the volume of trade between Korea and Poland reached an all-time high of $10.1 billion last year, and emphasized that cooperation between the two countries has recently been expanding to various fields such as high-tech industries such as batteries, nuclear power plants, and defense industry.

He then spoke of deepening and developing cooperation between the two countries and expanding trade and investment.

Deputy Minister Yang also said that the two countries are expanding cooperation in industrial technology, including in the information and communications field, through EUREKA, the world’s largest joint research and development (R&D) platform, and are also conducting joint research in the energy technology field, such as nuclear energy, as proposed by Korea. Poland was asked to show interest and participate in the CFE initiative.

/yunhap news