Japan and Thailand will hold their second round of intergovernmental talks later this week in Tokyo on creating a bilateral free-trade agreement, the Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Negotiators from the two countries, which launched the FTA talks in mid-February in Bangkok, will meet from Wednesday to Friday, with discussions continuing through Saturday if necessary, the ministry said.
They are scheduled to hold plenary talks and meetings of working groups covering areas such as trade in goods and services, investment, intellectual property rights and competition policy.
In their first round of negotiations, the two sides agreed that the FTA should cover all sectors, with the aim of tearing down impediments to trade and investment and sharpening the competitiveness of the two nations.