Quotable quotes at RCEP Youth Dialogue

Rintaro Tanaka, director of the Japan External Trade Organization Guangzhou Office

The RCEP will have a significant positive impact on trade between China and Japan. Under the RCEP, the percentage of tariff-free industrial goods exported from Japan to China will increase from 8 percent to 86 percent ... The RCEP has strengthened the rules on investment and intellectual property protection while new regulations related to e-commerce and data have been added. It is one of our tasks to promote enterprises, especially the small and medium-sized ones, to utilize the preferential policies under the RCEP agreement.