Action 8. Position Free Trade (FTAs/TPP) as part of a Growth Strategy and Assert...
...Strategy and Assert Leadership through the Creation of Rules The EU’s free-trade ratio (trade with FTA partners as a proportion of total trade) is 77.6% (includes trade within the EU)....
Free Trade: How to Push Against the Rise of Protectionism
...withdrawal from the TPP, trade agreements remain high on the political agenda. Prime Minister Abe is still seeking to promote trade with Japan, and an open trading system. Where will...
Preventing a Global Trade War: Is It Too Late?
Under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy, the US has sought major trade renegotiatiations, including deals with the EU, negotiations with China, and NAFTA. Many traditional alliances are becoming fractured....
We Are All Asians Now
...China. You can’t get much more integrated than that! Free trade agreements (FTA) can help sustain the momentum for even closer economic integration. First there was ASEAN, then ASEAN+1, ASEAN+3,...
WANTED: Leadership in the New World Disorder
...climate changeーit’s already withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement and plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It’s also beginning to reconsider all of its...
G1 Summit 2011 (2): Scenes from the Second Day – Exchanges at Conference Rooms,...
...Governor Hirohiko Izumida of Niigata Prefecture, Assistant to the Prime Minister Goshi Hosono, Hirokazu Kiuchi from Wagoen, Masahiro Hayafuji from the Trade Policies Review Division of the World Trade Organization,...
Globalization: To Do It Right You Need to Understand It
...Having been given little support to adjust to trade-induced labor and industry dislocations, people grew vocal in their opposition to free-trade and globalization. Right-wing politicians (left-wing, too, in some cases)...
What Is Abenomics, and Will It Work?
...Partnership (TPP), a 12-country free-trade agreement that should drive trade liberalization and deregulation inside Japan. Far from frightening the electorate with this flurry of policies, Abe has maintained a support...
Valuable insight that tuna diplomacy provided my child
...trade had remained unbanned. The opinion that blue fin tuna trade should be banned was strong around the world, but Japan talked with a lot of people around the world,...
15th Email from Japan – “Abenomics” and an invitation to the G1 Global Conference...
...join in the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is an important step towards more trade liberalization and deregulation. The government is also committed to achieving the target of...
