Priority Areas of Cooperation
The AJCEP aims to liberalize and facilitate trade in goods between ASEAN and Japan and promoting cooperation in fields such as Information and Communications Technology, Intellectual Property, and SMEs. The parties will also continue to discuss and negotiate improvements to the chapters on Trade in Services and Investment.
The AJCEP is comprehensive in scope and covers a broad spectrum of areas, with standalone chapters/ annexes including:
The AJCEP is comprehensive in scope and covers a broad spectrum of areas, with standalone chapters/ annexes including:
- Trade in goods
- Rules of origin
- Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
- Standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures
- Trade in services
- Investment
- Economic cooperation
- Settlement of disputes
