Japan-U.S. New Trade Agreement Agricultural products are not expected in future negotiations Foreign Minister Mogi November 21, 18:50
Over the new trade agreement between Japan and the United States, Foreign Minister Mogi stressed at the House of Councilors Committee that future negotiations for opening up the market do not envisage agricultural products only in the automotive field required by Japan.
The Japanese and US governments will discuss whether to start renegotiations over a new trade agreement within four months after it enters into force. , Further requests were made for the next negotiation.
The proposal for the approval of the new trade agreement in the Diet was substantively deliberated by the Council of Foreign Affairs and Defense on the 21st, and the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party stated in the annex of the agreement that the United States has preferential treatment for agricultural products. "Pursuing the world," he pointed out, "It is agricultural products that the United States is assuming in the next negotiation."
On the other hand, Foreign Minister Mogi assumed that the Japanese side assumed the subject of negotiations only in the automotive field for which continuous discussions were held. This is not what Japan has agreed to. We do not expect negotiations for agricultural products. "