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Short History of Japan's Movement to FTAs.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Hatakeyama Noboru
Japan's Original Position on FTAs By the time this magazine is published, the Japan Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (JSEPA) will have gone into effect. This is the first free trade agreement (FTA) Japan has ever been engaged in. Of course there was a reason why Japan had not been involved in any FTAs. An FTA is an agreement among member countries to mutually and substantially eliminate trade barriers such as tariffs and quantitative import restrictions.
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