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4012 Overview of the Elimination or Reduction in Tariffs under the Agreement between Japan and the Republic of Chile for a Strategic Economic Partnership

Based on the Japan-Chile EPA, the tariff is scheduled to be eliminated approximately 92% of the value of the trade between the two countries (approximately 99% of exports from Japan and approximately 91% of imports from Chile) within 10 years from the entry into force of the agreement.

I. Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

  1. Japan’s key commitments

    • ・Silver salmon, Trout: Gradual tariff elimination within 10 years
      ・Bottled wine: Gradual tariff elimination within 12 years
      ・Beef (boneless), pork (Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in)(frozen), chicken (not with bone in)(frozen): Tariff rate quota
      ・Wood products (excluding plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood.): Immediate or gradual tariff elimination

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  2.  Chile’s key commitments

    • Green tea, Chinese yams, persimmons, sake: Immediate tariff elimination

II. Industrial products

  1. Japan’s key commitments

    Tariffs on almost all the goods imported into Japan are eliminated within 10 years.
    ・Refined copper: Gradual tariff elimination in 10 years
  2. Chile’s key commitments

    • Tariffs on almost all the goods imported into Chile are eliminated within 10 years.
      ・Motor vehicles (Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons, Motor vehicles for the transport of goods): immediate tariff elimination
      ・General machinery: immediate tariff elimination
      ・Electrical/electronic machinery: immediate tariff elimination


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