Japan will host an international symposium aimed at jump-starting the stalled negotiations on forging a tariff-cutting agreement for environmental goods involving 46 members of the World Trade Organization, sources said. The event is set for Aug. 29 in Beijing. The participating nations and regions, including ...
The tobacco industry continues to subvert government attempts to prevent tobacco-related deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in a fresh call to counter corporate lobbying and litigation. Countries with partly state-owned tobacco companies, such as Japan, which has a stake in Japan ...
In negotiations with the European Union on an economic partnership agreement, Japan may be reviewing several compromises in areas including university and hospital projects, railway operators, and tariffs, according to several sources. Tokyo is considering opening up bidding for local university and hospital projects to ...
Japan's trade ministry said Tuesday the number of "problematic" anti-dumping measures is rising, citing South Korean stainless steel and U.S. steel sheet trade cases as among priority issues to tackle. In its annual report on unfair trade practices, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ...
Japan and the World Trade Organization on Monday issued what is believed to be an unprecedented joint statement reaffirming their commitment to fostering free trade in the face of a recent surge of protectionism embodied by U.S. president Donald Trump. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and ...
By President Donald Trump's math, renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and other deals will largely pay for the massive tax cuts his Cabinet laid out this past week. He is likely off by a factor of close to 10 — or more — ...
The U.S. said Tokyo should “take new, bold steps” to remove regulations and nontariff barriers to trade, hinting at possible priorities for president Donald Trump.
A proposed U.S. corporate tax reform would almost certainly contravene international trade rules if implemented, lawyers have said, risking the biggest dispute in the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO). With signs growing that the United States may become more protectionist under President Donald ...
Japan followed the United States and the European Union on Thursday in announcing a policy of not treating China as a market economy under World Trade Organization standards. The move countered China's claim that the world's second-largest economy will automatically be recognized as a WTO-standard ...
Trade, that lifeblood of the world economy, is growing at its slowest rate in seven years and could falter even more should anti-globalization sentiment encourage governments to throw up more barriers. That's the verdict from the World Trade Organization, which dramatically slashed its forecast for ...
The U.S. launches a potentially dangerous challenge to the reappointment of a World Trade Organization judge.
At a ministerial conference in Nairobi where rich and poor countries were split over trade reform, the World Trade Organization reaches deals on agricultural export subsidies and food aid.
