Indonesia and the Philippines
Indonesia and the Philippines have only one bilateral FTA each — with
Japan. Indonesia is negotiating with Australia, EFTA and the D8 (eight
Islamic countries). Neither country is part of the TPP negotiations.
The FTAs with Japan cover over 90% of goods trade, but they
exclude rice and have long transition periods (up to 15 years) on other
agricultural products. They are barely WTO-plus in other areas. Japan
has modest GATS-plus commitments to allow a limited number of
nurses and caregivers into its market. The Japan-Philippines FTA has
wider goods coverage than in the Japan-ASEAN FTA, but ROOs in the
latter are less restrictive as they allow for cumulation of value-added
production within ASEAN