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TRADE

EDITORIALS
Dec 12, 2016
China controls its WTO destiny
Until China is prepared to quit hedging, and extend the same benefits to its trading partners that it demands of them, its nonmarket economy status in the WTO is appropriate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 10, 2016
Japan's leadership vital for success of TPP
Scholars are urging the Abe administration to take the lead in renegotiations so as to keep the TPP deal's spirit alive if the U.S. should pull out.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Dec 10, 2016
Trump packing trade team with veterans of steel wars with China
President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry's battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports.
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2016
Diet ratifies TPP but trade deal remains dead in the water without U.S.
Chances of the deal taking effect are considered slim, as Donald Trump has vowed to withdraw after being sworn in.u2028
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 9, 2016
Pressure U.S. on free trade
The biggest loser in the U.S. presidential election was free trade.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2016
Trump's dangerous economic nationalism
If Donald Trump fulfills his economic nationalistic pledges, he will redefine America's global role in a fundamentally deceptive and destructive way.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2016
Trump's Treasury pick targets taxes, trade reforms
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, said on Wednesday the administration would make tax reform and trade pact overhauls top priorities in order to achieve a sustained pace of 3 percent to 4 percent economic growth.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 1, 2016
China wisely taking a neutral stance for now
China isn't jumping to conclusions about future U.S. policies, much less taking premature action.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 30, 2016
Trump confronting China on trade sets up backlash
If U.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivers on campaign pledges to get tough with China on trade, lining up against him likely will be another powerful adversary: American multinational corporations.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2016
Targeted protectionism can aid developing economies
Thai-style targeted protection example could work wonders, even in some of the basket-case economies in Africa and the Middle East.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Nov 28, 2016
China eyes 'The Art of War' as Trump signals battle on trade
There's a Chinese saying that stems from the philosophy in Sun Tzu's ancient text "The Art of War": You can kill 1,000 enemies, but you would also lose 800 soldiers.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 27, 2016
Dutch destroy 190,000 ducks in first bird flu cull
Some 190,000 ducks were destroyed on Saturday at six farms in the Netherlands following an avian flu outbreak, the country's first cull of an epidemic sweeping northern Europe.
EDITORIALS
Nov 25, 2016
Trade order battered but not beaten
The world trade system is under great and growing strain, but there is an opportunity for real and new leadership.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2016
Trump victory unlikely to stifle Abe's free trade crusade
With U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pledging to kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pro-growth Abenomics campaign is on the ropes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2016
Trump's NAFTA revamp would require concessions, borrowed elements from TPP
President-elect Donald Trump's plan to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to make it "a lot better" for U.S. workers would not be a one-way street for his administration, as Canada and Mexico prepare their own list of demands that could require difficult U.S. concessions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2016
Globalization's last gasp
Does Donald Trump's election mean that globalization is dead, or are reports of the process' demise greatly exaggerated?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2016
Trump to dump TPP on first day in office
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he will withdraw his country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact on the day he takes office, dealing another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2016
Japan, Argentina vow to speed up talks on investment pact
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Argentina President Mauricio Macri agreed Monday to speed up negotiations for a bilateral investment accord as part of efforts to strengthen economic ties.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 21, 2016
Japan logs second consecutive trade surplus as exports fall more than forecast
Japan posted a trade surplus for a second straight month in October, according to data released by the Finance Ministry on Monday. The surplus was driven by a continued decline in the value of imports, which have fallen faster than exports.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 21, 2016
Abe seeks to improve ties with China ahead of 45th anniversary of normalization
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Xi Jinping have agreed to improve relations ahead of the 45th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China.

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