Foreign trade contacts between the European Union and Japan: breakdown agreement of July 2018

The article analyzes the actual shifts in the foreign trade relations of the two leading contractors in the system of modern international commodity trade, the European Union and Japan, which concluded the Free Trade Agreement on July 17, 2018. The author gives a preliminary analysis of the alleged development of mutual trade contacts between them. Some official and calculated data are introduced into domestic scientific circulation for the first time. In the process of research, the author actively used methods of comparative and statistical analysis.