White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2018

• Introduction(PDF:81KB)
• Table of Contents(PDF:42KB)
• Explanatory Notes(PDF:40KB)

PartⅠ  Global economy

Chapter 1  Trends in the global economy and Japan’s external trade and investment

• Global economic trends(PDF:2,656KB)
• Trends in Japan’s external trade and investments(PDF:4,145KB)

Chapter 2  Economic trends and external economic policies in major countries/regions

• Section 1 United States(PDF:6,751KB)
• Section 2 Europe(PDF:4,903KB)
• Section 3 Asia(PDF:11,874KB)
• Section 4 Central and South America(PDF:5,139KB)
• Section 5 Russia and Central Asia(PDF:4,100KB)
• Section 6 Middle East and Africa(PDF:2,808KB)

Part II  Analysis: Significant shift in the global economy

Chapter 1 Expanding digital trade

• Section 1 Current status of digital trade(PDF:2,785KB)

Chapter 2  Rise of emerging and developing economies

• Section 1 Changes in the roles of emerging and developing economies in the global economy(PDF:1,349KB)
• Section 2 Response to global excess production capacity(PDF:3,484KB)

Chapter 3  Rapid change in the Chinese economy

• Section 1 Macroeconomic trends(PDF:4,728KB)
• Section 2 Advance of new industries(PDF:7,777KB)
• Section 3 Trends of China’s External trade and investment(PDF:8,716KB)
• Section 4 Business opportunities for Japanese companies(PDF:3,594KB)

Part Ⅲ Policies

Chapter 1 Development of free, fair and high-level trade rules

• Section 1 Progress in mega-FTAs (CPTPP, Japan-EU EPA, RCEP, etc.)(PDF:1,471KB)
• Section 2 Investment-related treaties(PDF:436KB)
• Section 3 Japan-U.S. economic relations(PDF:140KB)
• Section 4 WTO(PDF:554KB)
• Section 5 G7/G20 and OECD(PDF:42KB)
• Section 6 APEC(PDF:121KB)

Chapter 2  Emerging economy strategy (China, ASEAN/Asia-Pacific, India, Russia, the Middle East, and Africa)

• Section 1 China(PDF:34KB)
• Section 2 ASEAN/Pacific region(PDF:139KB)
• Section 3 India(PDF:119KB)
• Section 4 Russia(PDF:96KB)
• Section 5 Middle East(PDF:80KB)
• Section 6 Africa(PDF:156KB)

Chapter 3  Comprehensive trade policy

• Section 1 Promotion of utilization of economic partnership agreements(PDF:14KB)
• Section 2 Consortium for New Export Nation(PDF:515KB)
• Section 3 Food exports(PDF:234KB)

• References(PDF:474KB)
• List of Figures and Tables(PDF:167KB)