2009年5月28日木曜日

2009 Report on Compliance published by METI

Report on Compliance by Major Trading Trade Partners with Trade Agreements - WTO, FTA/EPA, BIT, is an official report by Japanese METI and have been published once a year.
On May 27, 2009 version was published on METI web site. As of now, the report is in Japanese version only, English version will be put on place later, currently up to 2008 version is available on METI web site.

The report covers broad range of trade issues, Part I is the specific trade issues per country, such as bringing the CCC (Chinese Compulsory Certification) issue in China. Part II is for WTO agreement matters, e.g. MFN principle, tariff, anti-dumping, or rule of origin, etc. Part III covers FTA/EPA issues.

Actually, this report covers almost same issues every year, and repeat same insistence from Japanese perspective.
For example in export control matter which request to US, Japan have insisted that US re-export extra-territorial requirement is a potential violation of international law. As Japan is a member of all major international export control regimes and have solid export control regulation fully and effectively. Therefore, Japan have requested US to exempt Japanese exporters as exempt of US re-export control regulation.

Reference:
2009 report (in Japanese): http://www.meti.go.jp/report/data/g90527c01j.html
English version (2009 report is not yet available) : http://www.meti.go.jp/english/report/index_report.html#wtoinconsistency

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