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UK's approach to negotiating a free trade agreement with Japan
Find out more about how the UK is negotiating a trade agreement with Japan and what the government aims to achieve.
Trade in services
- Secure ambitious commitments on market access and national treatment to ensure certainty for UK services suppliers in their access to the Japanese market.
- Secure best-in-class rules for all services sectors, as well as sector specific rules to ensure transparency and support our world-leading services industries, including key UK export sectors such as financial services, professional and business services, telecommunications and transports services.
- Ensure certainty for UK services exporters in their continuing access to the Japanese market and transparency on Japanese services regulation.
Public services
- Protect the right to regulate public services, including the NHS and public service broadcasters.
- Continue to ensure that decisions on how to run public services are made by UK governments, including the devolved administrations ( DAs), and not our trade partners.
Business mobility
- Secure opportunities for UK services suppliers and investors to operate in Japan through provisions for temporary business travel and supporting the recognition of professional qualifications.
Digital and e-commerce
- Secure cutting-edge provisions which maximise opportunities for digital trade across all sectors of the economy.
- Promote a world leading eco-system for digital trade that supports businesses of all sizes across the UK.
Telecommunications
- Promote fair and transparent access to the Japanese telecommunications market.
- Promote accessibility and connectivity for UK consumers and businesses in the Japanese market.
Financial services
- Expand opportunities for UK financial services to ease frictions to cross-border trade and investment, complementing co-operation on financial regulatory issues.
Investment
- Agree rules that ensure fair and open competition, and address barriers to UK investment across the Japanese economy.
- Ensure UK investors in Japan continue to enjoy high standards of treatment.
- Maintain the UK’s right to regulate in the national interest and as the government has made clear, continue to protect the NHS.