日本と中国のFTA戦略変化とRCEP/TPP

Abstract

Under the globalization in the world economy, while interdependence of the economy between nations deepens more and more, many countries push forward the conclusion of the FTA.There are the six frames of FTA in the East Asia area, as ASEAN, China‐Japan‐Korea FTA (CJKFTA),ASEAN+3(EAFTA),ASEAN+6(CEPEA),RCEP,TPP. And there are two designs of FTAAP and EAC for the future.The FTA is including not only the economic side simply, but also the security side.This study pays its attention to the change of such economic environment and international situation, and discussed the meaning of the FTA strategy of Japan and Chinaon the East Asia area.Japan enlarged the range of FTA contentsfrom “article trade and service trade” to “person, investment”, and switched from the FTA method to EPA method in 2006.Becausearticle trade of Japan was almost liberalized, and the pure FTA (article trade) lost a meaning (merit) like that. These are meanings of the changing of FTA strategy.On the other hand, the FTA of Chinawas the neighboring countries closed economic relations and resources‐affiliated countries.But, the FTA strategy of China is changeddue to the international relationship situation of Japan and China and the rising of TPP in 2010.China became to concentrate power on RCEP to plan unity of the East Asia area to be opposed to TPP.In the world economy, it came out the twobig frames called on RCEP initiatived by China and TPP initiatived by the United States.