First AEO program with New Zealand

On May 14, MOF announced it was agreed that Japan and New Zealand accepted the status of AEO exporters as granted under their respective programs.
This is first AEO agreement for Japan with foreign country.
The details are in below URL in MOF.

http://www.mof.go.jp/english/tariff/ka200514e.htm (English)
http://www.mof.go.jp/jouhou/kanzei/ka200514.htm (Japanese)

The implementation is scheduled in Oct 20, 2008.