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Japan and the Future of Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from FTA Negotiations with Mexico and the Philippines
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Japan and the Future of Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific:
Lessons from FTA Negotiations with Mexico and the Philippines
Gregory Corning
Department of Political Science, Santa Clara University
E-mail ## email not listed ##
Paper Presented at the ISA Annual Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii
March 4, 2005
Abstract
In negotiating FTAs with Mexico and the Philippines, Japan committed to onlyvery limited opening through expanded import quotas of certain agriculturalgoods and immigration quotas for healthcare workers. Nevertheless, Japanliberalized in ways it refused to even consider in APEC (1998) and the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (2002). Although most economistsbelieve that bilateral FTAs erode the multilateral trade regime, Japan’s FTAs withMexico and the Philippines have taken the same cautious approach to marketaccess as that in the Doha Round, albeit on preferential terms. With even asuccessful Doha Round likely to maintain protection for sensitive products,Japan’s bilateral FTAs can advance the WTO’s liberalization agenda by chippingaway at the nation’s agricultural protectionism.
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Japan and the Future of Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific:
Lessons from FTA Negotiations with Mexico and the Philippines
Gregory Corning
Department of Political Science, Santa Clara University
E-mail ## email not listed ##
Paper Presented at the ISA Annual Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii
March 4, 2005
Abstract
In negotiating FTAs with Mexico and the Philippines, Japan committed to only
very limited opening through expanded import quotas of certain agricultural
goods and immigration quotas for healthcare workers. Nevertheless, Japan
liberalized in ways it refused to even consider in APEC (1998) and the Japan-
Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (2002). Although most economists
believe that bilateral FTAs erode the multilateral trade regime, Japan’s FTAs with
Mexico and the Philippines have taken the same cautious approach to market
access as that in the Doha Round, albeit on preferential terms. With even a
successful Doha Round likely to maintain protection for sensitive products,
Japan’s bilateral FTAs can advance the WTO’s liberalization agenda by chipping
away at the nation’s agricultural protectionism.
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