EU-JAPAN FTA EXPECTED TO BENEFIT EU NONWOVENS ROLL GOODS OVER CHINESE ONES
January 1st, 2013
A POTENTIAL free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and Japan, for which negotiations will start in earnest this year, could give an advantage to EU exporters of nonwovens roll goods compared to rivals in China and others Asian countries. That is the view of Jacques Prigneaux, director of market analysis and economic affairs at the international nonwovens association EDANA. “China is the first supplier of Japan”, he told Nonwovens Report International, with Japanese imports from China reaching EUR110 million in 2011. The EU was the second ...
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