OVERVIEW OF THE JAPAN-UNITED STATES
FRAMEWORK TALKS
MECHANISMS AND FIELDS OF DIALOGUE
Japan-United States Summit Meeting (Twice a Year)
Macro-Level Issues(Mid-Term Objectives)
Japan
- Highly significant decrease in current account surplus
- Sustainable domestic demand-led growth
- Increasing the market access
- Increase in global imports
United States
- Substantially reducing fiscal deficit
- Promoting domestic savings
- Strengthening international competitiveness
Sectoral and Structural Consultations and Negotiations
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Government Procurement
- Computers
- Supercomputers
- Satellites
- Medical technology
- Telecommunications
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Preferential procurement policy (policies on preferential treatment for United States products)
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Regulatory Reform and Competitiveness
- Financial services
- Insurance
- Competition policy, transparent procedures, distribution
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Promotion of U.S. exports to Japan, enhancement of U.S. international competitiveness
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Other Major Sectors
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Autos and auto parts
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Autos and auto parts
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Economic Harmonization
- Foreign direct investment
- Intellectual property rights
- Access to technology
- Long-term buyer-supplyer relations
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Trade-related legislation(such as Section 301)
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Implementation of Existing Arrangements and Measures
- SII (Japan-United States Structural Impediments Initiative)
- Paper
- Glass
- Wood products
- Underlined sections indicate high-priority matters for negotiation, with conclusion originally scheduled to be reached by the February 1994 Summit.
- Italics indicate areas in which conclusion has been reached.
- The extent of implementation of measures and policies in each area, and the progress achieved, are to be evaluated using objective criteria (qualitative and/or quantitative).
Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective
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Promotion of Health and Human Development
- Assistance for Women in Development (WID)
- Population
- HIV/AIDS
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Children's health
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The Challenges facing the Security of Human Beings
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Narcotics
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Narcotics
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Protecting the Global Environment
- Assistance for environmental development
- Coral reefs
- Forests
- Conservation
- Oceans
- Global Observation Information Network (GOIN)
- Worldwide Network of Research on Global Change
- Environmental Policy Dialogue
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Environmentally-friendly and energy-efficient technologies
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Science and Technology
- Civil industrial technology
- Transportatoin technology
- National Information Infrastructure (NII)
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Road technology
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Exchanges to Promote Mutual Understanding
- Manufacturing Technology Fellowship Program (MTFP)
- Labor exchanges
BASIC PRINCIPLES
- Two-way dialogue between the two countries.
- Benefits other countries on a most-favored nation (MFN) basis.
- Matters to be limited within the scope and responsibility of government
- Disputes to be settled in a manner consistent with international rules such as the GATT.
- Refrain from application of unilateral measures (such as sanctions under Section 301 of the United States Trade Act).
- Managed trade approaches such as setting numerical targets to be avoided. 1-4: Clearly specified in the July 1993 framework agreement
5: Referred to in a July 1993 note from Japan to the United States
6: Affirmed at the resumption of the Japan-United States Framework Talks in May 1994
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