The Seventh Round of Negotiations on the Japan-Switzerland Economic Partnership Agreement (Summary)

June 27, 2008

The Seventh Round of Negotiations on the Japan-Switzerland Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) was held from June 23 (Mon) to 27 (Fri) in Tokyo.
In this Round, Mr. Jun Yokota, Representative of the Government of Japan (Chief Negotiator), and other officials from relevant ministries for the Japanese side, and Mr. Luzius Wasescha, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the WTO, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Chief Negotiator) and other officials from relevant ministries for the Swiss side participated.
There was a Chief-Negotiator-level discussion on the overall negotiations at the plenary meetings. In addition, expert-level meetings in such areas as trade in goods (market access, general rules, and rules of origin), trade in services, investment, intellectual property rights, electronic commerce, competition and other areas were held to further deepen the discussion, and significant progress was made in each area.

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