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U.S. praises Japan for entering Pacific trade talks

Politics Dec. 04, 2011 - 06:00AM JST ( 9 )

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gaijinfoDec. 04, 2011 - 09:36AM JST

Japan will never join fully. They might reduce a couple of tariffs on a few things, but they'll just clog up the negotiations by requiring special considerations for being such a special nation.
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NuckinFutzDec. 04, 2011 - 10:05AM JST

Japan is only wants to km the talks so it can foul up the process with endless whining! In the end it will bail out and refuse to open its markets as it has done for years.
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sswayDec. 04, 2011 - 06:32PM JST

Somehow I can see this will include a way for Japan to export their contaminated produce to the world so everyone can share in the Fukushima pain and support the farmers.
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mr_jgbDec. 04, 2011 - 07:11PM JST

This is US global politics. US through this trade pact hopes to contain China, and be Asia Pacific dominating power. Japan is supporting Uncle Sam. Not about trade, its about politics.
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Jared NormanDec. 04, 2011 - 07:34PM JST

I will probably be hard to drive a camera everyday in japan.
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NeoJamalDec. 04, 2011 - 09:09PM JST

Already, some U.S. lawmakers have demanded that Japan lift nontariff barriers on auto imports if it wants to join TPP.

Yeah I find it difficult to understand why Japan would go as far as to impose tarrifs on American cars that Japanese people don't want to drive? Since when did any Japanese auto company enter the oversized gas-guzzler market?
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SeiharinokazeDec. 04, 2011 - 09:59PM JST

She said Japan’s tariffs, particularly on industrial products, were very low at 2 to 2.5%, and most attention would be on non-tariff measures including regulatory barriers.

As the U.S. kicked the Kyoto Protocol after signing it, Japan will perhaps leave the TPP in the end. Lifting the nontariff barriers means for one thing that the U.S. has the nerve in the name of it to ask Japan to provide ecological technology to the U.S. auto makers so that their cars can be put on the market here. Rhetoric of being on an equal footing sounds rather expedient. Don't be swayed by some honeyed praise and missing-the-bus mentality.
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Patrick HattmanDec. 05, 2011 - 12:36AM JST

December 4, 2011:

"Japan must be willing to open up its highly protected agricultural sector and lift non-tariff barriers if it wants to join a trans-Pacific trade pact, current and former U.S. trade officials say."

And the same will be said in 5 years, 10 years...or Japan will technically agree to do certain things in the agricultural sector, for example, and then build more warehouses to store imported foodstuffs for many years, just like rice.
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MaboDofuIsSpicyDec. 06, 2011 - 08:49AM JST

The Chinese do not want their currency to float, and it would have to if they joined.