ISDS Case Map
Japan
Japan has fallen behind other nations in its EPA strategy, laments the Yomiuri Shimbun.
Japan's new trade minister Akihiro Ohata said Tuesday he hopes to move toward considering joining a planned multilateral free-trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region that is looking to include the United States.
The United States made no specific request for relaxing Japan's beef import restrictions over mad cow disease at a two-day bilateral working-level meeting that ended in San Francisco on Wednesday, Japanese officials said Thursday.
A common platform of several farmers groups, the Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements, has charged the Central government with complete lack of transparency on the implications of the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement or CEPA with Japan and the inclusion of agriculture on its agenda.
In a briefing before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday, the Commerce Ministry declared that three of its four ongoing free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations could be finalised in the next 12 months.
Groups in India along with the Forum Against FTAs raise their voices as the Government of India gave an in-principle agreement to the CEPA with Japan in complete secrecy last week
The India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement will not call for any amendments to the existing intellectual property laws in either of the partner countries, according to government sources.
Japan will maintain its stance on restricting some U.S. beef when officials from the two countries hold talks next week, the agriculture ministry said today.
Asian economic powers Japan and India broadly agreed Thursday on a free trade deal that aims to reduce most tariffs between the two nations in a decade, Japanese foreign minister Katsuya Okada said.
