5-Mar-2019
Nikkei Asian Review
Japan aims to sign an economic partnership agreement with Turkey in June, as Tokyo’s tariff-reducing deal with the European Union.
4-Mar-2019
Nikkei Asian Review
Ministers from Asia’s leading economies renew their pursuit of a sweeping regional trade deal as an easing of tensions between the U.S. and China gives momentum to multilateral negotiations.
25-Feb-2019
Nikkei Asian Review
Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are finalizing updates to their economic partnership agreement to resolve shelved issues on liberalizing the investment and service fields, completing a deal that took effect over a decade ago.
11-Feb-2019
NHK World Japan
Japan and Turkey will hold talks in Tokyo on a bilateral economic partnership agreement.
10-Feb-2019
The Korea Herald
South Korea, Japan and China are making slow progress on FTA negotiations amid contentious issues involving each country’s interests.
31-Jan-2019
European Commission
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and Japan enters into force on 1 February 2019.
17-Jan-2019
CTech Calcalist
Israel and Japan are in talks to enter a free trade agreement between the countries.
17-Jan-2019
Australian Financial Review
Donald Trump signed the so-called Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) includes a call for the US to return to multilateral trade deals, countering the President’s own tendency to pursue agreements with individual countries such as Mexico, Canada and Japan.
7-Jan-2019
The Straits Times
Pacific trade pact takes off with tariff cut in six nations that ratified the pact
12-Dec-2018
The Hindu Business Online
Over the past decade, India’s trade imbalance vis-à-vis its existing CEPA partners has steadily increased, says a study by Third World Network.
11-Dec-2018
Nikkei Asian Review
Japan’s parliament approved an economic partnership agreement with the EU, clearing a key hurdle for the tariff-cutting pact to take effect next year.
10-Dec-2018
The Korea Herald
South Korea, China and Japan will hold their 14th round of negotiations to discuss ways to open goods and services markets and lower other trade barriers.