China says FTA with S.Korea may be effective in 2015

BEIJING (Reuters) - The free trade agreement between China and South Korea should be effective in the second-half of next year if all goes well, China's Assistant Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said on Monday. The Chinese and South Korean governments said last week that they had "effectively" reached a free trade agreement that would remove or sharply reduce barriers of trade and investment between the two Asian countries. (Reporting by Jake Spring; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)