SAKUYAMA Takumi
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Agriculture
   Position   Professor
Language Japanese
Publication Date 2021/03
Type Academic Journal
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Does the Japan-US Trade Agreement Violate the WTO Agreements?: Verification by Calculating True Tariff Elimination Ratios Based on the Japanese Government Criterion
Contribution Type Sole-authored
Journal TypeJapan
Volume, Issue, Page 92(3),pp.317-322
Total page number 6
Details This paper finds that, in the Japan-US Trade Agreement (JUSTA), the true tariff elimination ratio for the US is 5 percent and that for Japan-US combined is 34 percent, which falls short of the 90 percent threshold set by the Japanese government for its FTA to be consistent with the WTO Agreements, and proves that the JUSTA violates the WTO Agreements. This conclusion is reinforced by the fact that, even if tariffs on automobiles/auto parts and duty-free items are assumed to be eliminated as the Japanese Government professes, the tariff elimination ratio for the US still falls below 90 percent.
URL for researchmap https://researchmap.jp/Takumi_Sakuyama/published_papers/31661861