その1 やっとTPP大筋合意 豊かなベトナムに加速か!!
平成27年 西暦2015年10月6日 神無月 火曜日
TPP大筋合意…交渉5年半、巨大経済圏誕生へ 2015年10月06日 01時29分
TPP交渉の合意について共同記者会見する各国の代表ら(5日午前9時58分、米アトランタで)
【アトランタ(米ジョージア州)=横堀裕也、辻本貴啓】環太平洋経済連携協定(TPP)交渉に参加する12か国は5日朝(日本時間5日夜)、共同記者会見を開き、交渉が大筋合意に達したとする声明を発表した。
2010年3月に始まったTPP交渉は5年半を経て終結し、世界の国内総生産(GDP)の約4割を占める巨大な経済圏が誕生することになった。
記者会見に先立ち、甘利TPP相は記者団に「TPPは21世紀型のルール、貿易のあり方を示す大きな基本になる。この基本は世界のスタンダードになっていく」と意義を強調した。議長役のフロマン・米通商代表部(USTR)代表は記者会見で、「成功裏に妥結したと発表できることをうれしく思う」と述べた。
TPPは安倍首相の経済政策「アベノミクス」の柱の一つ。発効すると、域内でのモノや人材、サービスのやりとりが盛んになり、経済が大きく活性化することが期待できる。日本は少子高齢化で国内市場が縮小に向かう中、米国や新興国の需要を取り込み、新たな成長のよりどころとする。
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached
By JACKIE CALMES OCT. 5, 2015
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The United States trade representative, Michael Froman, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. By REUTERS on Publish Date October 5, 2015. Watch in Times Video »
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ATLANTA — The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations on Monday agreed to the largest regional trade accord in history, a potentially precedent-setting model for global commerce and worker standards that would tie together 40 percent of the world’s economy, from Canada and Chile to Japan and Australia.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership still faces months of debate in Congress and will inject a new flash point into both parties’ presidential contests.
But the accord — a product of nearly eight years of negotiations, including five days of round-the-clock sessions here — is a potentially legacy-making achievement for President Obama, and the capstone for his foreign policy “pivot” toward closer relations with fast-growing eastern Asia, after years of American preoccupation with the Middle East and North Africa.
Mr. Obama spent recent days contacting world leaders to seal the deal. Administration officials have repeatedly pressed their contention that the partnership would build a bulwark against China’s economic influence, and allow the United States and its allies — not Beijing — to set the standards for Pacific commerce.
The Pacific accord would phase out thousands of import tariffs as well as other barriers to international trade. It also would establish uniform rules on corporations’ intellectual property, open the Internet even in communist Vietnam and crack down on wildlife trafficking and environmental abuses.
Ford Motor Co. quickly issued a statement opposing the agreement, saying it would not meaningfully arrest currency manipulation by United States trading partners. “To ensure the future competitiveness of American manufacturing, we recommend Congress not approve T.P.P. in its current form,” the automaker said.
Several potentially deal-breaking disputes had kept the 12 trade ministers talking through the weekend and forced them repeatedly to reschedule the promised Sunday announcement of the deal into the evening and beyond. Final compromises covered commercial protections for drug makers’ advanced medicines, more open markets for dairy products and sugar, and a slow phaseout — over two to three decades — of the tariffs on Japan’s autos sold in North America.
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Countries
Canada
$658
United States
Japan
$201
Mexico
Vietnam $36
$534
Brunei $0.6
Malaysia $44
Singapore
$47
Peru
$16
Australia
$37
Chile
$26
Total goods traded with the United States in 2014
New Zealand
$8
Imports plus exports, not including services, in billions of dollars
Census Bureau
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Yet the trade agreement almost certainly will encounter stiff opposition.
Its full 30-chapter text will not be available for perhaps a month, but labor unions, environmentalists and liberal activists are poised to argue that the agreement favors big business over workers and environmental protection. Donald Trump has repeatedly castigated the Pacific trade accord as “a bad deal,” injecting conservative populism into the debate and emboldening some congressional Republicans who fear for local interests like sugar and rice, and many conservatives who oppose Mr. Obama at every turn.
Long before an accord was reached, it was being condemned by both Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is challenging Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democrats’ nomination. Other candidates also have been critical. Mrs. Clinton, who as secretary of state promoted the trade talks, has expressed enough wariness as she has campaigned among unions and other audiences on the left that her support is now in doubt.
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Still, in Congress the outcome for ratifying the agreement “will be affected by what’s in it, and that’s the way it should be,” said Representative Sander Levin of Michigan, in an interview here before the deal came together. He was the one lawmaker to come to Atlanta to monitor final talks.
Mr. Levin, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction for trade, has supported some trade pacts but was skeptical of this one. He is concerned about unfair competition from Japan for his state’s automakers and union workers. In particular, Mr. Levin objected that language addressing Japan’s devaluation of its currency, which reduces the cost of its auto exports, would not be in the trade agreement but rather in a side agreement that would be hard to enforce against currency scofflaws.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative said the partnership eventually would end more than 18,000 tariffs that the participating countries have placed on United States exports, including autos, machinery, information technology and consumer goods, chemicals and agricultural products ranging from avocados in California to wheat, pork and beef from the Plains states.
Japan’s other barriers, like regulations and design criteria that effectively keep out American-made cars and light trucks, would come down.
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Amtrak Train Derails in Vermont; 8 Reported Injured
By JESS BIDGOODOCT. 5, 2015
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Amtrak’s Vermonter after it derailed Monday morning in a remote part of the state, injuring seven passengers. Credit Stefan Hard/Barre Montpelier Times Argus, via Associated Press
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An Amtrak train carrying 98 passengers and a crew of four through a remote stretch of Vermont derailed on Monday morning, emergency officials said.
The train had been traveling from St. Albans, Vt., to Washington “when it derailed after reportedly striking debris from a rock slide on the tracks,” Amtrak said in a statement on its website.
One crew member suffered
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