ENTRY INTO FORCE OF EU-JAPAN ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

The EU-Japan Economic Agreement became effective as of 1st February 2019. It removes the vast majority of the €1 billion of duties paid annually by EU companies exporting to Japan, as well as a number of long-standing regulatory barriers, for example on car exports. It also opens up the Japanese market of 127 million consumers to key EU agricultural products and increases EU export opportunities in many other sectors.