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Timeline of the Sino-Japanese Trade Dispute

The following is the chronology of the settlement process of the trade dispute between China and Japan.


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  • December 21 -- Chinese Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) Shi Guangsheng and Japanese Minister of International Trade and Industry Takeo Hiranuma and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Tsutomu Takebe held talks. Japan promised to stop excising restrictions on agricultural imports from China, while China pledged to cancel its retaliatory measures against imports from Japan.

  • December 19 -- China and Japan held vice-ministerial talks in Tokyo with no agreement reached.

  • November 12 -- Shi, Hiranuma and Takebe exchanged views on the dispute at the Doha meeting of the World Trade Organization.

  • November 8 -- China and Japan held non-governmental negotiations in Tokyo with no results yielded. On the same day, Japan ended its temporary protection measures.

  • November 1 -- The two governments carried out the second round of talks at the department director level, reached no agreement, but promised to start the non-governmental negotiations as soon aspossible.

  • October 17 -- Shi and Hiranuma held talks while attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting, expressing the desire to solve problems through negotiations.

  • July 3-4 -- The two governments held negotiations at the department director level without substantial progress.

  • June 27 -- The Japanese government proposed to send officials to Beijing for negotiations, and the Chinese government agreed.

  • June 26 -- MOFTEC proposed to solve the dispute through consultations.

  • June 22 -- China started imposing 100 percent punitive tariffs on imports of Japan-made automobiles, mobile phones and air conditioners.

  • April 23 -- Japan started implementing the temporary protectionmeasures against the three Chinese imports. On the same day, Spokeswoman Gao Yan said China asked Japan to remove the measures and it reserved the right to make further responses.

  • April 17 -- The Japanese cabinet approved an ordinance to officially impose temporary protection measures on the three farm products from China.

  • April 12 -- Spokeswoman Gao Yan of China's MOFTEC voiced China's strong protest against Japan's decision to implement the temporary protection measures.

  • April 11 -- The Japanese Embassy in China informed the Chinese government in a letter that Japan would start implementing temporary protection measures against the three products imported from China from April 23.

  • December 22, 2000-- Japan started the one-year investigation into the three farm products, the green Chinese onion, fresh mushrooms and tatami rushes, which are mainly imported from China.




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