NONWOVENS SECTOR BACKING CONCLUSION OF EU-JAPAN FREE TRADE TALKS

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Japanese nonwovens industries are backing a successful conclusion of negotiations between the EU and Japan on a free trade agreement (FTA). The talks, which began in March 2013, have entered a scheduled review phase after what seems to have been a testing  first year though “work and consultation with the EU member states is ongoing and the talks have not broken down, that’s clear,” said John Clancy, the Commission’s trade spokesman. The EU had warned from the start that it would stop the talks after a year if there had been ...


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