(Provisional translation)
June 18, 2024
Keidanren
Keidanren
Outline
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Proposal
I Changes in the Trade and Investment Environment
- Fears of a Shift to a Bloc Economy
- Growing Importance of Economic Security
- Growing Importance of Sustainability
II Basic Direction for the Reconstruction of the Free and Open International Economic Order
III Maintaining and Strengthening Free and Fair Trade and Investment
- EPA/FTA
- (1) CPTPP
- (2) RCEP/Japan-China-Republic of Korea FTA
- (3) EPAs/FTAs with the Global South
- Investment Agreements
IV Realization of a Resilient Trade and Investment Environment Incorporating Elements of Economic Security
- Emphasis on National Treatment
- Addressing Economic Coercion, etc.
- Review of Security Exceptions
- Collaboration with Like-Minded Countries and Others to Strengthen Supply Chains
V Expanding Free and Fair Trade and Investment through Ensuring Sustainability
- Ensuring Regulatory Transparency and Promoting Regulatory Cooperation
- Promoting Trade in Environmental Goods
- Forming International Agreement on Carbon Border Adjustment, etc.
VI Promoting WTO Reform
- Restoring the Dispute Settlement Function
- Strengthening the Rule-Making Function
- (1) Promoting Initiatives in the Digital Field
- (2) Ensuring a Level Playing Field
- Strengthening the Monitoring Function for Agreement Implementation