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EU and Japan sign trade and data deals
By EUobserver
The EU and Japan on Tuesday signed a free-trade agreement that includes removing EU barriers on Japanese cars and Japanese duties on EU cheeses and meats. They also signed an agreement that recognises EU and Japan's data protection systems as "equivalent". The trade deal will now have to be ratified by the European and Japanese parliaments. EU Council president Donald Tusk hailed it as "the largest bilateral trade deal ever."