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【News】 Japanese agricultural group head submits comment to USTR, urging TPP members to treat agriculture as an exception (June 8, 2013)
The Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (JA-Zenchu) submitted a written comment to the United States Trade Representative on Friday, June 7, concerning Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks. The statement said it “is regrettable” that the Japanese government expressed its intention to join the TPP talks and that the 11 TPP negotiating countries including the U.S. approved Japan’s entry. It stressed that agriculture, which is essential to sustaining people’s lives and health, should be handled differently from other industrial sectors in the TPP negotiations. It also referred to the resolutions adopted by the agriculture, forestry and fisheries committees of both the Upper and Lower Houses of the … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Listen to the citizens’ voices against the TPP (May 25, 2013)
Campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks is spreading beyond the agricultural sector to include university professors, lawyers and other citizens. Citizens’ groups and the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives plan to hold a protest rally with some 2,000 participants in Tokyo on Saturday, May 25. People from various different groups are now voicing opposition to the TPP which they say will lead to the devastation of the country. In July, Japan is expected to join the TPP negotiations and the Upper House elections will be held. It is time for us to raise a cry of protest and go out on the streets to let the voices of farmers and … Continue reading
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【News】 Anti-TPP professors say tariff cuts will lead to JPY 10.5 trillion drop in production and 1.9 million job losses (May 23, 2013)
A group of some 900 university professors and researchers announced on Wednesday, May 22, their own estimate of the possible economic impacts of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks. They estimated that the production in the agricultural sector and related industries together could decline by 10.54 trillion yen, calculated on the assumption that tariffs on 33 agricultural items are immediately scrapped, the same simulation adopted by the Japanese government in estimating the impacts. They also said that 1.46 million workers in the agricultural sector, or 1.9 million including workers in related industries, would lose their jobs, and that the nation’s gross domestic product would decline by 4.8 trillion yen, … Continue reading
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【Series】 TPP – Underlying motive of the U.S.: report on anti-TPP lawmakers’ visit to the U.S. Part 4 （May 17, 2013）
Part 4; U.S. Congress aims to give White House free hand to negotiate TPP Takanori Okabe “I would like to see a bipartisan trade promotion authority bill introduced by June,” United States Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said in his opening statement at a hearing on the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact held on Wednesday, April 23, as the Japanese delegation of anti-TPP policymakers looked on. In the U.S., Congress basically has the authority over trade policies. TPA, previously known as fast track, gives the President the authority for a limited period of time to negotiate trade agreements that Congress cannot amend. It expired in July 2007, and without the … Continue reading
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【News】 Farmers’ groups of Japan and US issue a joint statement, expressing strong concern over TPP as a threat to national sovereignty (May 16, 2013)
Japan’s Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (JA Zenchu) and the United States’ National Farmers Union issued a joint statement on Wednesday, May 15 (Tuesday, May 14, U.S. time), to express strong concerns over negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade framework. It noted that agriculture must be treated differently from other economic sectors in trade agreements, due to the fundamental importance of food security, rural economies and cultural considerations. It said that the TPP negotiations raise serious questions of national sovereignty, as the talks cover important issues for the citizens of each country, ranging from food safety to health care. The joint statement, the fruit of cooperation between agricultural organizations … Continue reading
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