Japan should gear up for pushing a bilateral free-trade agreement with Chile to expand business in South America, a Chilean business leader urged.
Roberto de Andraca, chairman of the board at CAP S.A., a Santiago-based mining and steelmaking firm, said the urgency to promote free-trade between the two countries is increasing since Chile concluded an FTA with the European Union in April.
"This puts in danger not our products . . . but imports from Japan," de Andraca said in a recent interview with The Japan Times. He visited Tokyo last week to cochair the 21st Japan-Chile Business Cooperation Committee conference.