TOKYO - Trade Ministers of the Japan, China and the Korea of the South said Sunday ensure free trade help reconstruction following the tsunami on 11 March, as Tokyo has stressed its exports were safe despite a nuclear crisis.
Kaieda Banri for the Minister of trade of the Japan and Chinese and Korean counterparts, Chen Deming and Kim Jong-Hoon, gathered as the struggles in the Japan with the massive destruction of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and the Monster wave that it triggered.
The Ministers agreed that the rapid reconstruction of the disaster-hit areas would be vital for the regional economy.
"We share believes that the recovery of the stricken region and the Japan as a whole is in the interest of all three countries", they said in a joint statement.
"We get smooth and the common understanding that it is important to continue to ensure rapid circulation of goods and persons in the region of Asia".
Manufacturers through the Japan close production lines or reduce output because of shortages of damage or power and supply chain problems after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, which paralyzed atomic planttriggering the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
"The maintenance and development of a system of free and open trade will be not only greatly support the recovery of the stricken region of the Japan process but also to ensure the safety of growth strong and durable of the three countries"the statement said.
China and South Korea have imposed bans on food products of the prefectures near the sinistrée nuclear plant, which was leaking radiation.
Kaieda stressed that Japanese exports were safe and called on China and the South Korea to "handle the question based on a scientific basis", a trade Ministry official told AFP.
He said "the Trade Minister Kaieda told them that Japanese products are safe because the authorities are collecting food samples and verification on the levels of radiation, while industrial products are manufactured indoors.", ».
Japan has also allocated 700 million yen ($8.6 million) to help fresh exporters of coverage, screening radiation, said the Ministry of trade.
In addition to ban food from regions near the plant, the Chinese authorities demanded that imports of food products from other areas is accompanied by certificates showing that they were free of radioactivity and give their places of origin.
South Korea prohibits the sale of vegetables and some other food products of four prefectures nearest of Fukushima plant.
Similar bans have been imposed by the Russia, United States, Taiwan and Singapore.
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