Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreement Strategy

Consideration Based on a Comparison with South Korea

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As the presence in world trade of developing and newly emerging countries becomes more prominent, the WTO’s Doha Development Round negotiations have stalled because of conflicts among the industrialized countries and these developing/newly emerging countries. For this reason, increasingly, countries around the world are aggressively concluding bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs).