EU and Japan emerge as champions of global free trade with new accord
Deal will cut EU tariffs on Japan's cars, boost EU farm produce exports to Japan
Tokyo
JAPAN and the European Union (EU) will go into the Group of Twenty (G-20) summit in Hamburg on Friday as global champions of trade liberalisation following an agreement reached on Thursday in Brussels on an EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA) that has been four years in the making.
Their leaders hope to demonstrate to key advanced and emerging economies - and not least to US President Donald Trump - that faith in free trade has not been shaken by Mr Trump's abrupt exit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or by Britain's decision to quit the EU.
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