Japan-LAC Business Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 2016

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The specific objectives of this project are: (i) promoting the intensification of Japan-LAC bilateral trade and investment and the diversification of trading partners and traded products through the generation of business contacts and the identification of concrete commercial opportunities; and (ii) develop institutional and technical capacity in trade promotion organizations (TPOs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from LAC countries to assist them in (a) promoting the inflow of Japanese FDI; (b) identifying opportunities to diversify LAC exports to Japan, with a particular emphasis on new trends and sectors that do not hold a significant participation in the region's exports to Japan; and (c) open the Japanese market to export from more diverse LAC trading partners.