Brussels, 6 July 2017 – After 4 years of negotiations the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, and Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, have announced the conclusion of the trade agreement between the EU and Japan.
“We congratulate the European Commission for pursuing an ambitious trade agenda and we warmly welcome the EU-Japan FTA” said Jean-Marie Barillère, president of CEEV. “Wine is the first agri-food product in terms of exports outside the EU, and this is the result of both the initiative of the wine businesses and of a dynamic EU trade policy which removes the barriers that we are facing in export markets”.

