The 12th Round of Negotiations for Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)

January 31, 2011
Japanese

The 12th round of negotiations for the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will be held in Tokyo from Monday, February 7 to Thursday, February 10.
The participants in the meeting will be: on the Japanese side, Mr. Shinichi Nishimiya, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, and other Deputy Director-General level co-chairs from Japan as well as other officials from relevant Japanese ministries; and on the Australian side, Ms. Jan Adams, First Assistant Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Head of the FTA Task Force) and other officials from relevant departments of Australia.
Among the issues that will be discussed in the meeting are trade in goods and services, investment, government procurement, energy and mineral resources, and improvement of business environment.

(Reference) Background

April 23-24, 2007:          1st Round of Negotiations held in Canberra

August 6-10, 2007:         2nd Round of Negotiations held in Tokyo

November 5-8, 2007:      3rd Round of Negotiations held in Canberra

February 25-29, 2008:    4th Round of Negotiations held in Tokyo

April 28-May 1, 2008:       5th Round of Negotiations held in Canberra

July 28-August 1, 2008:   6th Round of Negotiations held in Tokyo

October 27-31, 2008:      7th Round of Negotiations held in Canberra

March 9-13, 2009:        8th Round of Negotiations held in Tokyo

July 27-31, 2009:            9th Round of Negotiations held in Canberra

November 17-25, 2009:   10th Round of Negotiations held in Tokyo

April 19-22, 2010:          11th Round of Negotiations held in Canberra

(*This is a provisional translation. The above date denotes the date of the issue of the original press release in Japanese.)

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