Problems relating to Trade and Investment on United States

24. Indigested legislation, abrupt changes
Issue	Issue details	Requests	Reference

(1) Restrictions on Auto Truck Transport Varying by Each State

- While this is not a matter of immediate concern to a Member Firm, in the inter-state transport, varying truck weight requirements by individual states compel splitting the container cargo into smaller bundles in certain cases.

- It is suggested that the GOU harmonizes the truck weight throughout the U.S. for the sake of attaining the optimum efficiency.

(2) Exceptional Treatment for Specific Industry

- Exceptional treatment for tobacco industry under TPP could materially affect the activity for promoting foreign trade investment. It can likely spread to economic activity of individual bodies or investors in the TPP signatories, forcing them into thinking twice for furthering investment activity. Its impact is broad and substantial. GOU and Malaysian Government (reportedly) filed proposals for giving an exceptional treatment on the products of tobacco industry. (Reported Information).

- It is requested that GOJ participating in TPP negotiation to appreciate the state of affairs shown in the left column, and take whatever measures are necessary to avoid giving a special treatment on any specific products.

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