TOKYO (AFP) - wants to Japan and open negotiations on a free trade EU-Japan agreement to link the world's third largest economy and the first market in the world, a report said Friday.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan told his ministers to work on reforms demanded by the European Union, such as the Elimination of non-tariff barriers to trade and to liberalize the public markets, Kyodo News reported.
Address by the Prime Minister has as Ministers resumed discussions on the issues of trade liberalization, which had been suspended following the earthquake on March 11, according to Dow Jones Newswires.
Japan has been strong support the European Union to announce the launch of formal negotiations towards an agreement at a Summit in Brussels on May 27 and 28.
On which prompted by Great Britain, the leaders of the 27-nation bloc called in March for the rapid launch of negotiations for a free trade agreement help the Japan hit the disaster - but subject that Tokyo lift trade restrictions.
Commercial ties between the two has consistently shown a strong surplus for the Japan, the EU currently being third largest partner of trade of the Japan, while the Japan is the fifth largest in Europe.
Japan has been eager to launch free trade negotiations with the European Union believes that the Elimination of tariffs in the EU on cars and electrical appliances would benefit from Japanese companies.
But the European Union is looking to the Japan for the non-tariff barriers, including food, while offering a better business General access European scrap.
During a brief stopover in Brussels this month by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Takeaki Matsumoto, his spokesman said that Tokyo hoped for a quick trade agreement to facilitate recovery by the earthquake and the tsunami.
Officials on both sides are currently working to define "exercise scope" - a list of tasks scheduling of obstacles to overcome before the launch of free-trade negotiations. Which should be adopted at the Summit.
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