Japan's Agri-Food Sector and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

摘要

Japan is in negotiations to establish the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with the United States and 10 other countries. Within the TPP trade zone, Japans agriculture and food market are second in size only to those of the United States. Japans agriculture is inward oriented, although its large livestock and poultry sector depends on imports of feedstuffs. Japanese agricultural exports are relatively small. Japans food industry, in contrast, is increasingly outward oriented, focused on global markets, and already an investor in the economies of the Pacific Rim. With its current high barriers to some agricultural imports, access to Japans market is an important part of the proposed trade agreement for the U.S. agricultural sector.