Even after the withdrawal of the US, the TPP remains an ambitious free trade agreement that will lower tariffs and non-tariff barriers for Japanese firms in a number of important trading partners and should open its economy to productivity-enhancing competition. The resulting boost to growth won’t be huge but should be palpable.
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