The new politics of trade: EU-Japan

Suzuki, Hitoshi (2017) The new politics of trade: EU-Japan. Journal of European Integration, 39 (7). pp. 875-889. ISSN 0703-6337

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Abstract

Unlike the European Union’s (EU) negotiations with the US and Canada, the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations have encountered few critics from civil society organisations (CSO) and therefore became an ‘exceptional’ case for the EU. There are four reasons. The first is that the main focus of the EPA is still on ‘old’ issues such as tariff reduction of motorcars, electronics and agricultural products. The second is the relative lack of innovative proposals compared to the American and Canadian case. The third is Japan’s lack of ability and competitiveness to export its regulations, making Japan’s attitude relatively defensive. Finally, the modest scale of Japan-EU trade compared to transatlantic trade. These four reasons made the level of contestation relatively low, but this has not led to an acceleration of concluding the EPA. Uncertainty caused by Trump and the Brexit referendum have made Japan’s trade policy complicated and unpredictable

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/geui20/current
Divisions:	International History
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	20 Mar 2018 16:49
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2024 04:33
Projects:	25780113, 15KK0126
Funders:	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87318

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