Sixteen economies in Asia and Oceania are scheduled to hold their first meeting Thursday in Brunei on the establishment of a regional free-trade agreement. Meeting for five days, Japan, the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China, South Korea, India, ...

Japan and the European Union began preliminary talks Monday toward the creation of one of the world’s largest free-trade accords, with both sides seeking to boost their respective, faltering economies with such a deal. During the five-day meeting in Brussels, the two sides are ...

Japan and Australia reach a broad agreement on trading farm products, clearing a major hurdle in their pursuit of a bilateral free-trade agreement.

Australia has demanded it be allowed to keep its 5 percent tariff on Japanese car imports in place in bilateral free-trade negotiations with Japan. The demand is apparently a response to Tokyo’s recent decision to tolerate U.S. auto tariffs in separate trade negotiations, a ...

Senior officials from Japan, China and South Korea on Thursday ended their first round of talks on reaching a free-trade agreement, according to South Korea’s chief delegate. “We discussed the scope of negotiations . . . and administrative details like the timetable of negotiations,” ...

Japan, China and South Korea launch the first round of negotiations for concluding a free-trade agreement among the three nations that together account for around 20 percent of world gross domestic product.

All 11 nations already negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations may approve Japan’s entry into the talks during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meeting in Indonesia in April, New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said. The meeting of the APEC trade ministers, set for April ...

Japan is entering a new stage in its pursuit of free-trade agreements as it begins bilateral and multilateral FTA negotiations involving its three major trade partners — the United States, the European Union and China. Just about a week before declaring the launch of ...

Japan and the European Union are expected to announce the launch of formal negotiations on concluding a bilateral free-trade agreement at their summit Monday in Tokyo, eyeing creation of a trading bloc accounting for around 30 percent of global gross domestic product. Prime Minister ...

The first negotiations for a free-trade area that would bring together 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan and China, will start in May.

South Korea is seeking to hold the first round of talks on a free-trade deal with Japan and China in Seoul late this month, its foreign ministry said Friday. “Specifics regarding the date and agenda are being discussed with China and Japan,” the ministry ...