EPA（ Economic Partnership Agreement ：経済連携協定）、FTA（ Free Trade Agreement ：自由貿易協定）とは、特定の国や地域同士で、貿易や投資を促進するための条約です。 輸出入にかかる関税の撤廃・削減や、サービス業を行う際の規制の緩和・撤廃など、幅広い分野での経済関係の強化を目的とします。

This paper proposes a method of quantifying the additional fixed cost to exporters of taking advantage of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Such additional fixed costs can be measured by the ratio of ...

Trade agreements offer companies greater freedom and opportunity to do business internationally; they should also place obligations on companies to act in support of human rights and the environment.

Free trade agreements (FTAs) entail rules of origin (ROO), which require exporters to identify the origin of exports to prove eligibility for preferential tariff rates. This paper investigated how a ...

FTAとは、「Free Trade Agreement」の略称で、「自由貿易協定」とも呼ばれます。 FTAはEPAと同じく、国や地域間の輸出入にかかる関税の撤廃や削減等を ...

The EU is also eager to cooperate with a vast trans-Pacific free trade agreement involving Japan and 10 other nations, plus Britain that joined the accord in 2023. Some inside the bloc have called for ...

経済連携協定（EPA：Economic Partnership Agreement）とは、2以上の国（又は地域）の間で、自由貿易協定（FTA：Free Trade Agreement）の要素（物品及びサービス貿易の自由化）に加え、貿易以外の分野、例えば知的財産の保護や投資、政府調達、二国間協力等を含めて締結される包括的な協定です。

自由貿易協定（ Free Trade Agreement: FTA）などに基づいて、他国との貿易取引に課税される一般関税（WTO協定税率、MFN関税などともいいます）より低率の特恵関税（ Preferential Tariff ）の適用を受けるためには、それぞれの協定で定められた原産地規則を満たし、産品が締約国の原産品であると認定さ ...

[DOC] While trade agreements impose binding obligations on governments, it is private sector employers who determine, in the first instance, whether labor rights are a reality in the private sector ...

Ahead of the last political trilogue on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive on Wednesday 13 December 2023, a group of businesses including IKEA, ALDI SÜD, Novo Nordisk, Tchibo, ...