Japan Has Free Trade Deal With Eu.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Tusk triumphant. Points out (warning to Brits) that you can't be half in and half out of the EU.

Assume therefore that any EU citizen has automatic right to enter Japan and be to entitled to its welfare system?
Secondly assume that Japan has to accept its "fair share" of refugee?

[TheChair]

Japan and Europe are negotiating a trade deal. It's not only not yet a done deal, but also it's not a free trade deal.

[Khandro]

Is this great economic break-though against a back-drop of China's long refusal to trade with the EU, or what? Is there anywhere with whom China will not trade? they even trade with North Korea!
Switzerland established a similar deal all by itself, long ago and without any fuss.

[webbo3]

Im also assuming Japan has free movement with the eu and vise versa, and it will start to accept eu law over riding some of its own.?

Dave.

[webbo3]

Thechair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40520218

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/07/05/eu-japan-promise-commit-free-trade-deal/

http://www.theweek.co.uk/86460/japan-and-eu-strike-free-trade-deal-after-four-years-of-talks

[Khandro]

""At the heart of the deal is an agreement for the EU to open its market to the Japanese auto industry, with Tokyo in return scrapping barriers to EU farming products, especially dairy," says AFP."

The Japanese make lots of very good cars and eat very little dairy food.

[sevenOP]

'Free trade', is that one of the fruits of the "Magic Money Tree" ?

TheChair, maybe we should be sitting under said "Tree" and a 'free meal' will fall on us ?

http://billmoyers.com/story/free-trade-myth-explained/

[ichkeria]

It's a trade deal, presumably, so I doubt if it involves anything to do with refugees or welfare systems.
The EU is an economic block, so it does trade deals.
" Points out (warning to Brits) that you can't be half in and half out of the EU. "
Doesn't that put him in step with Theresa May and co then? :-)

[Old_Geezer]

Hardly a myth. One might as well argue that there is no such thing as free speech, but the term is never meant in extreme. There is always a tighter or looser framework it operates within. TPP was never an acceptable suggestion and was rightly protested against. It seemed to try to produce a power shift away from elected governments and towards merchants. Any deal *must* be of benefit to the country's populations.