| April 19, 2018 |
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| EBC Meets with Director-General Lowri Evans of D-G GROW |
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EBC Chairman, Mr. Danny Risberg, chaired a roundtable meeting of EBC committee representatives with Director-General Lowri Evans of Directorate-General GROW of the European Commission. DG Evans was accompanied by several other officials from D-G GROW as well as from D-G Connect. Mr. Philippe Duponteil, Head of Unit, Far-East of D-G Trade was also present.
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| February 28, 2018 |
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| EPA Event: Mission Accomplished - The EU-Japan EPA Agreement: A Time to Celebrate. |
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On February 28, the EBC in collaboration with the Delegation of the EU to Japan, and the EU-Japan for Industrial Cooperation, held a seminar and reception entitled, Mission Accomplished - The EU-Japan EPA Agreement: A Time to Celebrate. More than 200 people from companies and embassies attended the event.
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| February 26, 2018 |
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Joint statement by EBC and ACCJ on arbitration
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The EBC Legal Services Committee together with the American Chamber of Commerce issued a joint statement on the efforts of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to develop and support the development of an international centre in Japan. At the same time the two organisations pointed out a couple areas where the MOJ and the Japanese Government would have to improve to make Tokyo or any other city in Japan a successful centre for arbitration.
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| January 15, 2018 |
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| Tariff Schedule of Japan under EPA Available Online |
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The full text of the EU-Japan EPA has been available since early December at http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1684 but did not include the tariff reductions/elimination details and dismantling periods for Japan. This information is now available at http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2017/december/tradoc_156519.pdf and should be of interest to companies bringing products currently subject to tariffs into Japan. |
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| December 21, 2017 |
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EBC 2017 Report on the Japanese Business Environment Published
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The EBC is pleased to announce that its 2017 Report on the Japanese Business Environment has been published and is now available. Entitled, "First Milestone Achieved", the report is timely. The EU-Japan EPA was just been concluded two weeks ago and is the first major milestone referred to in the title. It has taken more than four years of negotiations but finally both the EU and Japan have now committed to a new economic relationship, which will promote free and fair trade between two of the most important global economies. Read the report here: English / Japanese
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| December 11, 2017 |
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| EU-Japan EPA Negotiations Concluded |
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The EBC is delighted to announce that the EU and Japan concluded the EU-Japan EPA in Brussels on Friday, December 8. This agreement comes more than ten years after the EBC first requested the EU and Japanese Authorities to negotiate an economic integration agreement. It is due to come into effect during 2019. The content is comprehensive and deep and covers many non-tariff barriers submitted by the EBC to the EU negotiators. We compliment the European Commission negotiators on their success.
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JETRO Invest Japan Report 2017
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Based on survey results, JETRO has just published "JETRO Invest Japan Report 2017," a comprehensive report covering recent trends in inward FDI to Japan and related measures of the Japanese government, operations of foreign-affiliated companies and their perception of Japan's business environment and JETRO's FDI promotion activities. This is the third publication following the 2015 & 2016 editions.
The reports are available on the website:
English: https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/invest/reports.html
Japanese: https://www.jetro.go.jp/invest/reference.html |
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EBC Financial Reporting Committee |
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EBC Tax Committee |
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