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"en.20121025.26.4-327-000"2
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"This resolution seeks to set out Parliament’s priorities regarding the EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement and calls on the Council to authorise the Commission to launch negotiations for this agreement. In Parliament’s view, Japan must eliminate non-tariff barriers (NTB) and this argument should be used as a bartering tool towards concluding the agreement. It stipulates the inclusion of a binding review clause to assess Japan’s progress in this area. It emphasises the fact that concluding this agreement would be to the benefit ‘of EU businesses, workers and consumers’. In other words, the usual rhetoric. There are contradictions that have already emerged that need to be highlighted and which could well influence how the negotiations pan out. These are the ‘offensive’ and especially ‘defensive’ interests of the German car industry that are in question in this case, given the size and importance of the Japanese industry in this sector. Let us face the facts – these are much more powerful interests than those represented, for example, by the Portuguese textile sector, which was hit so hard in previous liberalisations negotiated by the high and mighty of this EU, or other low to medium technological intensity sectors – which have faced the subsequent destruction of manufacturing and job losses."@en1
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