One year later, the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement

At the one year anniversary of the EU-Japan trade agreement, have these countries made good on their promises to increase exports, including pork?

February 1, 2020 marks the first anniversary of the entry into force of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). In the first ten months following the implementation of the agreement, EU exports to Japan went up by 6.6% compared to the same period the year before. This outperforms the growth in the past three years, which averaged 4.7% (Eurostat data). Japanese exports to Europe grew by 6.3% in the same period.

Pork exports have seen even stronger export growth over the same period, increasing by 12.6% over the same period.

The agreement removes the vast majority of the €1 billion in duties that were charged annually on EU exports to Japan.

January 31, 2020/ European Commission/ EU/
https://ec.europa.eu/

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