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JAPAN:
information, documentation and coaching
services to facilitate business activities - exports, imports,
investments -
with or in Japan:
1.0. FTEPA
Switzerland - Japan: latest news.
Next:
The Japan Upper House will vote on it soon. It is scheduled to
go into effect an August 1, 2009.
June 8, 2009:
The Swiss Council of States (Conseil des Etats / Ständerat / Consiglio
degli Stati) approved it (32 Yes to 0 No).
May 27, 2009:
The Japanese Lower House approved it.
May 25, 2009:
The Swiss National Council (Conseil national / Nationalrat / Consiglio
nazionale)) approved (179 Yes to 0 No).
February 19,
2009: Switzerland's vice president Doris Leuthard, the head of
the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, met the Japanese Foreign
Minister
Hirofumi Nakasone and signed a bilateral Free
Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement FTEPA.
This FTEPA
is made up of the following documents [click on the document title to
see its text]::
1.1.
Japan main economic indicators
1.2.
Import-export Switzerland-Japan
1.3.
Switzerland-Japan:
direct investments
1.4.
JETRO
Geneva Newsletter May 2009
1.5.
JETRO "2008 White Paper on
international trade and foreign direct investments":
285 pages of analyses and data, available for free download at
www.jetro.go.jp/en/stats/white_paper/
1.6.
Link to JETRO
Geneva Office:
www.jetro.go.jp/switzerland/
1.7. Link to JETRO
Tokyo Headquarters: www.jetro.go.jp
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