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Minister Nishimura Visits Germany

(to attend the G7 Trade Ministers' Meeting)

September 15, 2022

On September 14 (Wed.) and 15 (Thu.), Mr. Nishimura Yasutoshi, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, attended the G7 Trade Ministers' Meeting held in Neuhardenberg, Germany. At the meeting, attendees discussed supporting Ukraine's recovery efforts, resilient and sustainable supply chains, reforming the WTO, and levelling the playing field. Afterward, a Ministers' Statement was adopted.

1. G7 Trade Ministers' Meeting

(1) Overview

(2) Comments by Minister Nishimura

METI Minister Nishimura made the following comments in the sessions listed.

(Dinner with Ms. Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's First Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade, and the G7 trade ministers)

(Resilient and sustainable supply chains)

(Reforming the WTO)

(Levelling the playing field and economic coercion)

(3) Outcome document and other data

2. Meetings with participating ministers and officials

Minister Nishimura took the G7 Trade Ministers' Meeting as an opportunity to meet with other leaders. He met with Ms. Yulia Svyrydenko (Ukraine's First Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade), Mr. Robert Habeck (Germany's Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action), Mr. Olivier Becht (France's Minister for Foreign Trade, Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad), Ms. Mary Ng (Canada's Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development), Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice President of the European Commission), and Ms. Katherine TAI (US Trade Representative).

In the meeting with Ms. Svyrydenko, Ukraine's First Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade, the ministers discussed Japan's cooperation toward Ukraine’s recovery.

Mr. Habeck is the Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of Germany, the chair of this year's G7 Trade Ministers' Meeting. In the meeting, the two ministers discussed how they will work together for next year's meeting—which Japan will be the chair of—as well as how to strengthen their partnerships on the trade and energy fronts, the latter of which prices have been soaring in.

In the meeting with Mr. Becht, France's Minister for Foreign Trade, Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad, the two ministers discussed next year's G7 Trade Ministers' Meeting and how to strengthen the partnerships between like-minded countries, specifically those between Japan and France and between Japan, European countries, and the US.

In the meeting with Ms. Ng, Canada's Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development, the two ministers discussed how their countries will work together on the CPTPP and WTO reform and confirmed the importance of the two countries’ collaboration.

In the meeting with Mr. Dombrovskis, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, the two leaders discussed how to strengthen Japan and the EU's partnership on maintaining and promoting a free and fair economic order. This discussion included next year's G7 Trade Ministers' Meeting and reforming the WTO.

Minister Nishimura also met with US Trade Representative Tai and Senior Vice-President Dombrovskis of the European Commission in a three-person meeting. They confirmed that they will work together to eliminate forced labor and agreed to speed up administrative-level discussions on how to deal with market-distorting measures.

Meeting with Ms. Svyrydenko, Ukraine's First Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade
Meeting with Mr. Habeck, Germany's Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Meeting with Mr. Becht, France's Minister for Foreign Trade, Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad
Meeting with Ms. Ng, Canada's Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development
Meeting with Mr. Dombrovskis, Executive Vice President of the European Commission
Meeting with Ms. Tai, US Trade Representative, and Mr. Dombrovskis, Executive Vice President of the European Commission

Division in Charge

Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau

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