The Political Economy of Japanese Trade Policy by Aurelia George Mulgan, Masayoshi Honma

By Aurelia George Mulgan, Masayoshi Honma

This examine offers up to date insurance of crucial household and exterior political and monetary affects on jap alternate coverage, in addition to the evolutionary dynamics of that coverage within the post-war interval.

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As Solis argues, the selection of trading partners in the early stages of Japan’s FTA policy where Japan only approached small trading partners exhibited a preference for minimising the effect of domestic adjustment costs associated with the liberalisation of Japanese markets. , agriculture) could be expected, there were ‘very important exclusions and quotas, thus mitigating the impact’ (Solis 2005, 4). In this context, restricting foreign access pointed to government concerns about avoiding a significant absolute reduction in the real incomes of farmers.

Html. html. —— (2002b), Overview of Japan-ASEAN Summit Meeting, November, http://www. html. html. pdf. Naoi, Megumi and Urata, Shujiro (2013), ‘Free Trade Agreements and Domestic Politics: The Case of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’, Asian Economic Review, No. 8: 326–349. Okano-Heijmans, Maaike (2013), Economic Diplomacy: Japan and the Balance of National Interests, Leiden and Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Ozaki, Haruo (2001), ‘Joron: Sekkyokuteki “Kaiho” o Nihon no FTA Seisaku no Hashira ni’ [‘Introduction: Positive “Market Opening” as the Core of Japan’s FTA Policies’], Ajia Kenkyū, December: 1–4.

Even in the case of the US-Australia FTA, which is an FTA between two of the world’s major exporters of agricultural products, exceptional treatment is given to certain agricultural segments and products’ (2013, 193). 4. As Honma explains, the URAA and the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) are the same. However, while the URAA was a result of the UR negotiations under the GATT in 1993, the AoA was the agreement adopted as a part of the Marrakesh agreement to establish the WTO in Marrakesh in 1994.

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