The government on Tuesday released further details of the recently inked Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, saying Japan will eventually remove tariffs on 95.1 percent of farm, industrial and other imported products.
Akira Amari, the minister in charge of negotiating the agreement, said the figure is almost as good as the target, "nearly 100 percent" of imported items.
Moreover, it tops the 88.4 percent in bilateral free trade accords Japan currently has with the Philippines and Australia, which represent Tokyo's two most sweeping existing free trade arrangements.