Japan, European Union Announce Free Trade Talks to Start April

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Japan and the European Union announced they will start free trade talks in April, as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushes for deregulation in a bid to revive the world’s third-largest economy.

Negotiations on an agreement covering free trade and political cooperation will begin in April, according to a joint Japan-EU statement issued by the European Council today.