UE-JAPAN Economic Partnership Agreement

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UE-JAPAN Economic Partnership Agreement

Preamble
Chapter 1    General provisions
Chapter 2    Trade in goods
Chapter 3    Rules of origin and origin procedures
Chapter 4    Customs matters and trade facilitation
Chapter 5    Trade remedies
Chapter 6    Sanitary and phytosanitary measures 
Chapter 7    Technical barriers to trade 
Chapter 8    Trade in services, investment liberalisation and electronic commerce
Chapter 9    Capital movements, payments and transfers and temporary safeguard measures
Chapter 10  Government procurement 
Chapter 11  Competition policy 
Chapter 12  Subsidies 
Chapter 13  State-owned enterprises, enterprises granted special rights or privileges and designated monopolies
Chapter 14  Intellectual property
Chapter 15  Corporate governance
Chapter 16  Trade and sustainable development 
Chapter 17  Transparency 
Chapter 18  Good regulatory practices and regulatory cooperation
Chapter 19  Cooperation in the field of agriculture 
Chapter 20  Small and medium-sized enterprises 
Chapter 21  Dispute settlement
Chapter 22  Institutional provisions 
Chapter 23  Final provisions 



Annexes (only the existing Annexes are listed):
Annex 2-A Tariff elimination and reduction
Part 1  General notes 
Part 2  Tariff elimination and reduction – the European Union
Part 3  Tariff elimination and reduction - Japan (Notes for the Schedule of Japan)
(NB: This part contains in particular the description of the 25 TRQs (tariff rate quotas) conceded by Japan to the EU on agricultural and processed agricultural products.)
Part 4  Japanese schedule
(NB: All tariff lines not specifically mentioned in the EU and in the Japanese schedules will be duty-free at the entry into force of the agreement)


Annex 2-B to E

• Annex 2-B  List of goods referred to in articles 2.15 and 2.17
• Annex 2-C  Motor vehicles and parts
  • Appendix 2-C-1  UN Regulations applied by both Parties
  • Appendix 2-C-2  UN Regulations applied by one of the Parties and not yet considered by the other Party
• Annex 2-D  Facilitation of shochu export
• Annex 2-E  Facilitation of wine product export

Annex 3

• Annex 3-A  Introductory notes to product specific rules of origin
• Annex 3-B  Product specific rules of origin
  • Appendix 3-B-1 Provisions related to certain vehicles and parts of vehicles
• Annex 3-C  Information referred to in article 3.5
• Annex 3-D  Text of the statement on origin
• Annex 3-E  On the Principality of Andorra
• Annex 3-F  On the Republic of San Marino

Annex 6 Food additives
Annex 8

• Annex 8-A  Regulatory cooperation on financial regulation
• Annex 8-B  Schedules for chapter 8
  • Annex 8-B I   Reservations for existing measures
  • Annex 8-B II  Reservations for future measures
  • Annex 8-B III Business visitors for establishment purposes, intra-corporate transferees, investors and short-term business visitors
  • Annex 8-B IV Contractual service suppliers and independent professionals
    • Appendix IV  Limitations of business activities of contractual service suppliers and independent professionals in Japan
• Annex 8-C  Understanding on movement of natural persons for business purposes

Annex 10  Government procurement
Annex 14

• Annex 14-A  Laws and regulations of the parties related to geographical indications
• Annex 14-B  List of geographical indications

Annex 23  Joint declaration
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