歐盟和日本週二簽署貿易協定

The European Union and Japan will sign a sweeping trade deal Tuesday in Tokyo.

The new deal will eliminate 99 percent of tariffs on Japanese products to the EU, from automobiles to electronics, as well as agricultural exports from European Union countries to Japan, including cheese, wine and pork.

EU chemical exports to Japan are also expected to surge under the new deal was finalized late last year after four years of talks, and is expected to formally take effect in 2019.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will sign the deal during a meeting with European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker.

Abe was to have signed the deal last week during a planned trip to Brussels, but was forced to cancel the trip to deal with massive landslides in southwestern Japan that killed over 200 people.歐洲聯盟和日本將於星期二在東京簽署一項內容廣泛的貿易協定。

這項新貿易協定將對日本出口到歐盟的汽車和電子產品等99%的產品免以及歐盟國家出口到日本的奶酪、葡萄酒和豬肉等農產品除關稅。

據信這項新貿易協定還將導致歐盟對日本的化學產品出口大大增加。歐盟和日本的貿易協定經過4年談判後於去年完成，預計於2019年正式生效。

日本首相安倍晉三將在與歐洲理事會主席圖斯克和歐盟委員會主席容克會見時簽署這項貿易協定。

安倍原定於上星期訪問布魯塞爾時簽署協議，但是日本西南部發生了200人喪生的嚴重滑坡，安倍被迫取消了計劃中的訪問。